{"product_id":"9780141182599","title":"Lucky Jim","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Amis, Kingsley | Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945) \u003cbr\u003ePublished 25\/05\/2000 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Penguin Modern Classics series \u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 272 pages\u003cbr\u003e196 x 129 x 16mm | 206g\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book' Guardian'A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The TimesJim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand. Inspired by Amis's friend, the poet Philip Larkin, Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character, adrift in a hopelessly gauche and pretentious world, in a witty campus novel that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction by David Lodge\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE CLEEVE BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57461985050999,"sku":"9780141182599","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/0729\/3737\/files\/9780141182599.jpg?v=1789632987","url":"https:\/\/thecleevebookshop.co.uk\/products\/9780141182599","provider":"The Cleeve Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}