Buy this book on-line AMIS**, KINGSLEY: : THE RUSSIAN GIRLLONDON.HUTCHINSON,1992. ISBN 0091745365.
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Kingsley Amis's new novel begins like an academic romp but soon takes off into territory which Amis has made triumphantly his own - the battle of the sexes and the conflicting claims of love and integrity.
Richard Vaisey is a respected scholar,a good chap who perhaps enjoys slightly too much being 'a bit of a professor'.So far he has managed to survive the ministrations of Cordelia,his manipulating wife.But then he falls for Anna,a Russian poet and dissident whose flamboyant personal appeal makes the awfulness of her verse.A petition is being organized which will safeguard her brother,imprisoned in the disintegrating Soviet Union.But Richard is clear-eyed about the quality of her work.
Will he sign? And what effect will his decision have on his marriage,his job,and his life?
This is a love story,but as always with Amis,it develops through a variety of wickedly funny scenes and characters.For several books the 'Old Devil' has been at the very top of his form,and 'The Russian Girl' is as entertaining and thought provoking as anything Amis has written.
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