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Do people ever really grow up? The old devils in this book are just as they have always been, but trapped in a slowly aging body. It's like living in a house that needs repair, but the repairman never comes.
When Alun Weaver and his wife, Rhiannon, a famous beauty in her day, move into a quiet retirement community, they find it peopled by friends from former days. Suddenly all the ambitions and energies, overgrown like weeds with years, burst out afresh. In Amis' hands the results are predictably funny.
Amis received the Booker Prize, Britian's highest literary honor, in 1986 for THE OLD DEVILS.
Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize
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Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis's _The Old Devils_ , which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years--when "all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast"--nattering, complaining,
### From Publishers Weekly The 1986 winner of England's Booker Prize, and by all accounts doing very well over there, this novel about a group of elderly Welsh people and their romantic and alcoholic shenanigans is likely to have tougher sledding on this side of the Atlantic. Amis, as usual, offers
Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis?s -- The Old Devils confronts the attrition of ageing with rare candor, sympathy, and moral intelligence.
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize. Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon
{ Oct 2020 - epub revisions. Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 381 pages Published 1986 NYRB Classics (2012) Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amisβs The Old D
1986 Booker Prize Winner