Living in the narrow confines of the lecturing world of a minor college in 1950's Britain, Jim Dixon is just about holding onto his history post, just about having a relationship with the neurotic Margaret and just about earning enough to pay for his drink, fags, occasional dates, and rent in a run-down boarding house. Kingsley Amis, was one of the 50's "angry young men" and the novel is shot through with his ascerbic wit and hilarious situations as his luckless hero seeks escape from boredom and middle-class convention.
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