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The Odd Couple: The curious friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin
Author(s): Richard Bradford (Author)
- Publisher: The Robson Press
- Publication Date: 30 Oct. 2012
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 384 pages
- ISBN-10: 1849543755
- ISBN-13: 9781849543750
Book Description
Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin altered the landscape of post-war British fiction and poetry and were among the most popular serious literary writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Respectively, their fiction and poetry particularly works such as Lucky Jim and The Whitsun Weddings have captured the imagination of the reading public and speak to us of something innately English and timeless. Published works only touch the surface of the bizarre and magnetic relationship between these two controversial and eccentric writers. The true, complex story is told here for the first time. Thoroughly researched, and brilliantly composed by Richard Bradford, author of critically acclaimed separate biographies of both writers, and of Martin Amis, The Odd Couple shows us these two literary giants as we have never seen them before. It also shows us how much of their most important work is an index to their relationship. Had they not met they would not have become the writers they were.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“lively, readable and often scandalous” –Sunday Times
All this is entertainingly related by Richard Bradford who has already written biographies of both men with commendable brio and brevity. A fine critic, he gives due weight to the work, as well as regaling us with frank, sometimes scorching details of the lives… In a globalised, electronic yet increasingly bland and colourless world, we shall not taste the salty like of these two quirky provincial Englishmen again. –Nigel Jones, The Spectator
This is a wonderful, fascinating account of two stars of the post-war literary generation, and their mutual influence –Good Book Guide
About the Author
Richard Bradford is the author of Martin Amis: The Biography (Constable & Robinson), Lucky Him and First Boredom The Fear (both Peter Owen). He lives in London.
