Kingsley Amis

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Ending UpPaperback, 28 April 2015

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Part of Series
Nyrb Classics
Print Length
136 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Date Published
28 Apr 2015
ISBN-10
1590177592
ISBN-13
9781590177594

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Kingsley Amis
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
28 April 2015
Dimensions:
20.07 x 12.95 x 1.02 cm
ISBN-10:
1590177592
ISBN-13:
9781590177594
Language:
English
Pages:
136
Weight:
136.08 gm

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