Ending Up Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis 9780141194233, 9780141961798, 0141961791, 0141194235 instant download after payment.

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-Dispatch

At 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 Dunmore

Kingsley 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.