A brilliantly and preposterously funny book GuardianA 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 Britains 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 madrigalsinging weekend at Professor Welchs, deliver a lecture on Merrie England and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welchs awful son Bertrand. Inspired by Amiss 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.With an introduction by David Lodge

Binding: Paperback;272 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 326 g; Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 16

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