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Ending Up (NYRB Classics) 🔍
Kingsley Amis; Introduction by Craig Brown New York Review Book Classics, Booker Prize Shortlist, 2015
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Kingsley Amis’ deliciously malicious tale tackles twin irritations: the inevitability of growing old, and living in a world inhabited by others delivering a “very funny” English novel about death and the inevitability of growing old (The Observer).“[A] ...a savage study of old age.” — St. Louis Post-DispatchAt Tuppenny-ha’penny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs. The mismatched quintet keep their spirits alive by bickering and waiting for grandchildren to visit at Christmas. But this festive season does not herald goodwill to all.“Only comedy of this quality can embrace such a bleak midwinter with such relish, and make the reader relish it too. The brevity, structural tightness and keen pace of Ending Up make it one of Amis’s most engaging novels.” — Helen DunmoreKingsley Amis is renowned as one of the finest English comic novelists of the second half of the 20th century. A novelist, poet and satirist, he wrote more than twenty novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, and various short stories, as well as literary criticism. In 2008, the Times ranked Kingsley Amis 13th on their list of the 50 greatest British authors since 1945. He is the father of the acclaimed British novelist Martin Amis.
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Amis, Kingsley; Brown, Craig
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New York Review of Books : [distributor] Random House (NY)
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New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
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New York Review Books;NYRB
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Penguin Random House LLC (Publisher Services), New York, 2015
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New York Review Books classics, New York State, 2015
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United States, United States of America
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Reprint, 2015
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A group of disgruntled septuagenarians prepare for their final days in this dark and “very funny” English novel about death and the inevitability of growing old (The Observer) Everyone wants a comfortable place to die, and Kingsley Amis’s characters have found it in Tuppeny-happeny Cottage, where assorted septuagenarians have come together to see one another out the door of life. There’s grotesque Adela, whose sole passion is her cheapness; her brother Brigadier Bernard Bastable, always strategizing a new retreat to the bathroom before sallying forth to play some especially nasty practical joke; Shorty, the servant, who years ago had a fling with the brigadier in the barracks and now organizes his day around a trail of hidden bottles; George Zeyer, the distinguished professor of history, bedridden and helpless to articulate his still-coherent thoughts; and Marigold, who slowly but surely is forgetting it all. And now it is Christmas. Children and grandchildren are coming to visit their ailing elders. They don’t know what lies in store before the story ends. None of us do. Ending Up is a grimly hilarious dance of death, full of bickering, bitching, backstabbing, drinking (of course), and idiocy of all sorts. It is a book about dying people and about a dying England, clinging to its memories of greatness as it succumbs to terminal decay.
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Ending Up Is A Grotesque And Memorable Dance Of Death, Full Of Bickering, Bitching, Backstabbing, Drinking (of Course), And Idiocy Of All Sorts. It Is A Book About Dying People And About A Dying England, Clinging To Its Memories Of Greatness As It Succumbs To Terminal Decay. Everyone Wants A Comfortable Place To Die, And Kingsley Amis's Characters Have Found It In Happeny Tuppeny Cottage, Out In The Country, Where Assorted Septuagenarians Have Come Together To See One Another Out The Door Of Life. There's Grotesque Adela, Whose Sole Passion Is Her Cheapness; Her Cursing And Scoffing Brother Brigadier Bernard Bastable, Always Strategizing A New Retreat To The Bathroom Before Sallying Forth To Play Some Especially Nasty Practical Joke; Shorty, The Servant, Who Years Ago Had A Fling With The Brigadier In The Barracks And Now Organizes His Daily Rounds From Woodpile To Wardrobe Around A Trail Of Hidden Bottles; George Zeyer, The Distinguished Professor Of History, Bedridden And Helpless To Articulate His Still- Coherent Thoughts; And Marigold, Who Slowly But Surely Is Forgetting It All. And Now It Is Christmas. Children And Grandchildren Are Coming To Visit Their Ailing Elders. They Don't Know What Lies In Store Before The Story Ends. None Of Us Do-- Kingsley Amis ; Introduction By Craig Brown.
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"Ending Up is a grotesque and memorable dance of death, full of bickering, bitching, backstabbing, drinking (of course), and idiocy of all sorts. It is a book about dying people and about a dying England, clinging to its memories of greatness as it succumbs to terminal decay. Everyone wants a comfortable place to die, and Kingsley Amis's characters have found it in Happeny Tuppeny Cottage, out in the country, where assorted septuagenarians have come together to see one another out the door of life. There's grotesque Adela, whose sole passion is her cheapness; her cursing and scoffing brother Brigadier Bernard Bastable, always strategizing a new retreat to the bathroom before sallying forth to play some especially nasty practical joke; Shorty, the servant, who years ago had a fling with the brigadier in the barracks and now organizes his daily rounds from woodpile to wardrobe around a trail of hidden bottles; George Zeyer, the distinguished professor of history, bedridden and helpless to articulate his still- coherent thoughts; and Marigold, who slowly but surely is forgetting it all. And now it is Christmas. Children and grandchildren are coming to visit their ailing elders. They don't know what lies in store before the story ends. None of us do"-- Provided by publisher
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A collection of geriatrics uneasily co-exists in a run down cottage and the tranquility of their "golden years" is undermined by practical jokes.
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2021-06-18
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