Kingsley Amis: A biography

by Eric Jacobs

Kingsley A Biography

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Tim · Rating 4 out of 5]

So good I read it twice, without being sure till I was halfway through...

[C.S. Boag · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't usually bail on books but I did on this one. I'd been perturbed by Martin Amis's dudding of the author, Eric Jacobs, and then excited by the insights in the early part of the book.

Then it becomes drivel, with Jacobs daring to confuse Amis's life with his fiction- it happened in Amis's books so it must have happened to him, the protagonists were like this, so Amis must have been like this, too.
So silly, so not worth reading. Martin Amis was right-the man's a fraud. It doesn't make me like Martin any better, though.

[Burt Schoeppe · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent read.

[Richard Nicholson · Rating 1 out of 5]

A bore - both the biographer and the subject. I gave up at about half way.