The Green Man by Kingsley Amis

The Green Man by Kingsley Amis

The owner of a haunted country inn contends with death, fatherhood, and romantic woes in this humorous, "rattling good ghost story" from a Booker Prize-winning author (The New York Times)

Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, "I honestly can't see why everybody who isn't a child, everybody who's theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn't spend all his time thinking about it. It's a pretty arresting thought." He also happens to own and run a country inn that is haunted. The Green Man opens as Maurice's father drops dead (had he seen something in the room?) and continues as friends and family convene for the funeral.

Maurice's problems are many and increasing: How to deal with his own declining health? How to reach out to a teenage daughter who watches TV all the time? How to get his best friend's wife in the sack? How to find another drink? (And another.) And then there is always death.

The Green Man is a ghost story that hits a live nerve, a very black comedy with an uncannily happy ending: in other words, Kingsley Amis at his best.

Kingsley Amis is a well-known English author who is known for his caustic and piercing wit. He is a well-known novelist, poet, literary critic, and lecturer who has written twenty novels, short stories, three poetry collections, as well as radio and television scripts. He has received numerous accolades for his work, including the Booker Prize and the Sommerset Maugham Award.

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ISBN 13	9781590176160
ISBN 10	1590176162
Title	The Green Man
Author	Kingsley Amis
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2013-05-07
Number of pages	256
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