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Country England Publication date 21 November 2001 Pages 1264 Originally published 21 November 2001 Page count 1,264 Publisher HarperCollins | 4.3/5 Language English Media type Print (Hardback) ISBN 0-00-257095-5 Genre Letter Editor Zachary Leader | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2001) was assembled and edited by the American literary critic Zachary Leader. It is a collection of more than 800 letters from Amis to many different friends and professional acquaintances from 1941 until shortly before his death in 1995. About one quarter of the letters selected were addressed to Amis's close friend, the poet Philip Larkin.
The other recipients of letters included in the book include:
The publication of the book was concurrent with that of Experience, a memoir by Kingsley Amis's son, the novelist Martin Amis. The author David Lodge called the Letters "a major literary event" and the critic John Carey proclaimed Leader's editing of the letters to be "omniscient".
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