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''His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he''d somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.''

Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious and ridiculous Professor Welch, a neurotic and unstable girlfriend, Margaret, burnt sheets, medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. If he can just deliver a lecture on ''Merrie England'', a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck, life is never simple . . .



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A brilliant and preposterously funny book * Guardian *
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Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis Penguin Essentials 27

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 05/04/2012
      ISBN13: 9780241956847, 978-0241956847
      ISBN10: 0241956846
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      Book Synopsis

      ''His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he''d somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.''

      Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious and ridiculous Professor Welch, a neurotic and unstable girlfriend, Margaret, burnt sheets, medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. If he can just deliver a lecture on ''Merrie England'', a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck, life is never simple . . .



      Trade Review
      A brilliant and preposterously funny book * Guardian *
      It has always made me laugh out loud . . . a flawless comic novel' -- Helen Dunmore * The Times *
      A seminal campus novel -- David Lodge

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