Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0140278702 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0140278702 Global Overview for this book
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A book in the Jim Dixon series which was first published in 1954. It tells the story of Jim Dixon - lower middle-class anti-hero - charting his social gaffes, cultural philistinism, inept relationships and crawling to superiors. Fighting his way out of a dusty attic could be a metaphor for what our hero Jim Dixon is doing in this story. He's stuck in world of limited options, not sure how to go further. A working-class grammar school boy (remember those?) who has scraped a lecturing job in an un-named provincial university, cheekily sticking his nose into a world of drawing-room music recitals where the unavailable prettiest girl in the room and her artist boyfriend talk about chaps they know from the BBC. He gets his girl in the end of course, and a plum job too - the clue is in the title. But that doesn't spoil the plot one little bit. You'll be rooting for Lucky Jim all the way through, right to the hilarious end. How does he get what he wants? A bit of cleverness; a bit of perseverance; but mostly he's just lucky, right at the moment when he seems to have screwed up everything.
Journal Entry 2 by AnonymousFriend at Strathfield Girls' High School in Strathfield, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Released 7 yrs ago (4/30/2016 UTC) at Strathfield Girls' High School in Strathfield, New South Wales Australia
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