Montalbano of the Los Angeles Times stated that “Amis rejected the label as ‘a very boring journalistic phrase.’” Following his early works, however, Amis produced a spate of novels that differed radically in genre and seriousness of theme. Critics ranked him among the foremost of the “Angry Young Men,” a school of British writers who disdained post-orld War II British society throughout the 1950s. After producing three other humorous works, Amis was quickly characterized as a comic novelist writing in the tradition of P. Although an eclectic man of letters, Kingsley Amis was best known as a prolific novelist who, in the words of Blake Morrison in the Times Literary Supplement, had the “ability to go on surprising us.” He won critical acclaim in 1954 with the publication of his first novel, Lucky Jim.
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