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Kingsley Amis once defined his intentions as part of his entry in a literary encyclopaedia: ‘What I think I am doing is writing novels within the main English-language tradition; that is, trying to tell interesting, believable stories about understandable characters in a reasonably straightforward style: no tricks, no experimental foolery.1
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James Gindin, ‘Kingsley Amis’, in Contemporary Novelists ed. James Vinson (New York: St Martin’s Press,1972) pp. 44–8:
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Appleyard, B. (1990). The Entertainer in Old Age. In: Salwak, D. (eds) Kingsley Amis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20845-6_1
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