{"product_id":"9780141182599","title":"Lucky Jim","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Amis, Kingsley \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 25\/05\/2000,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 272 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141182599,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book' Guardian'A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The TimesJim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand. Inspired by Amis's friend, the poet Philip Larkin, Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character, adrift in a hopelessly gauche and pretentious world, in a witty campus novel that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction by David Lodge\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54821620515189,"sku":"9780141182599","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780141182599.jpg?v=1732109482","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780141182599","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}