Bill, forgive me! Meanwhile - SIX titles! Pshaw!
In bold are the titles of eight novels by Kingsley Amis
The Alteration
James and Stanley were twin souls. They loved historical research – for James the Wars of the Roses, for Stanley the life of Joseph Chamberlain – and they loved pretty women. But alas, James always had difficulties with girls whereas Stanley…. Stanley and the women was a saga of uninterrupted success. How did he do it? It was true he looked like a cross between Ronald Colman and, Clark Gable, but what exactly was it? James cogitated long and hard until he knew. When he took out a girl, twenty days later it was a different kettle of fish. ‘I want it now,’ she murmured, and just a little later, ‘I like it here… and here.’ Later still he was drinking tea, smoking a cigarette and fingering his upper lip. ‘Lucky Jim!’ she cooed. In a sense yes. Luck was part of it. But mostly it was the biographer’s moustache.
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