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  • Published: 3 May 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099461043
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $26.99

Stanley And The Women




'A great storyteller, although he was much more than a storyteller' - Keith Waterhouse

Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, cantankerous, half-baked or just plain capricious. As one by one they gnaw away at his composure, Stanley wonders whether insanity is not something with which all women are intimately acquainted.

  • Published: 3 May 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099461043
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $26.99

About the author

Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis has been described as 'the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century'. Born in 1922, he wrote over twenty novels, including Lucky Jim (1954), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction, The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize, and The Biographer's Moustache (1995). He also published several collections of short stories, poetry and non-fiction. Amis was awarded a CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He died in 1995.

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Praise for Stanley And The Women

He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse ... He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist

John Mortimer