Kingsley Amis STANLEY AND THE WOMEN First Edition

The book is in fine condition (Clean red boards with silver lettering on spine) with only minor shelf wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped (minor creasing to the edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.

The Booker Prize winner Kingsley Amis author of more than twenty novels, negotiates brilliantly the difficult course that runs between tragedy and helpless laughter - triumphant handling of the unconscionable, the unbearable and the unspeakable.

"Stanley Duke is comfortably settled into early middle age, with a well-paid job and an apparently happy second marriage, when Steve, his son by his first wife, begins to display the first signs of acute schizophrenia. There is nothing at all funny about madness in the family, but the stages of Steve's illness, set out in all their desperate banality, now and again touching upon horror, have an effect on those around him that ranges from the devastating to the hilarious.

As Steve's condition deteriorates and father and son fall into the hands of the women, including Steve's female psychiatrist in charge of the boy's case, the situation exposes in its true awfulness and strangeness the character of the women in Stanley's life. Could it be that there are other, subtler, more insidious forms of madness than Steve's?.

"Tough, funny, tender and provoking. One of his fiercest and best." - PUNCH

255 pages.

ISBN: 0 09 156240 6

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