Stanley And The Women

Kingsley Amis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:4th Mar '04

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Stanley And The Women cover

'A great storyteller, although he was much more than a storyteller' - Keith Waterhouse

Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As one by one they gnaw away at his composure, Stanley wonders whether insanity is not something with which all women are intimately acquainted.Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, cantankerous, half-baked or just plain capricious. As one by one they gnaw away at his composure, Stanley wonders whether insanity is not something with which all women are intimately acquainted.

He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse ... He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist -- John Mortimer

ISBN: 9780099461043

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm

Weight: 213g

304 pages