Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis’s The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years—when “all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast”—nattering, complaining, reminiscing, and, above all, drinking. This more or less orderly social world is thrown off-kilter, Cited by: 8. · So, I decided to give The Old Devils a shot. The novel basically chronicles the lives of several retired couples living in Wales in the s. Malcolm and Gwen, Peter and Muriel, Charlie and Sophie, and Percy and Dorothy have all known each other for years, and all spend their days meeting up, chatting and drinking – the men at the local pub, the women at each other’s bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. · Amis is justly famous for writing about drink (his collection of essays on the subject, On Drink, is supremely funny) and one of the things The Old Devils is likewise justly famous for is drinking on an epic scale. Here is Alun and Charlie’s lunch while holidaying in Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.
Complete summary of Kingsley Amis' The Old Devils. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Old Devils. After reading the challenging Faulkner novel, As I Lay Dying, I fancied something a little more light-hearted bltadwin.rung our bookshelves, I spotted a Kingsley Amis novel called The Old Devils, which I had picked up a few months back.. I knew little about the novel, but taking a quick look at the cover, three things soon recommended it to me. In THE OLD DEVILS, Kingsley Amis examines the complex social dependencies that exist among six boozing sixty-something couples. In doing so, he creates three remarkable male characters that seem to originate from aspects of his own personality.
Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He was the recipient of the Man Booker prize in for the superbly written novel The Old Devils. The book is centered in Wales and revolves around the lives of several Welsh couples in their sixties. “Kingsley Amis’s most ambitious book is neither a sendup nor an exercise in some established genre. It sets forth a large cast of characters rendered in depth as well as on the surface. The Old Devils is also Mr. Amis’s most inclusive novel, encompassing kinds of feelings and tone that move from sardonic gloom to lyric tenderness.”. The Old Devils is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in The novel won the Booker Prize.. The plot centres on Alun Weaver, a writer of modest celebrity, who returns to his native Wales with his wife, Rhiannon, sometime girlfriend of Weaver's old acquaintance Peter Thomas.
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