In one of this man's novels, the protagonist takes up lodging with Dick and Martha Thompson, and gets raped while drunk towards the end but decides to continue her relationship with her attacker.
In one of this man's novels, the protagonist takes up lodging with Dick and Martha Thompson, and gets raped while drunk towards the end but decides to continue her relationship with her attacker. In another, a poet returns to his native Wales to join three aging couples before that man, Alan Weaver, drinks himself to death. This author of The (*) Green Man wrote about Patrick Standish, who attempts to seduce the attractive but prudish primary school teacher Jenny Bunn, in Take a Girl Like You. In the first novel by this author of The Old Devils, the title character dumps Margaret for Christine and gets a well-paying job in London from Christine's uncle, far better than his previous job as a junior lecturer in medieval history under the uptight Professor Welch. For 10 points, name this father of xenophobic lunatic Martin, the English author Lucky Jim.
In one of this man's novels, the protagonist takes up lodging with Dick and Martha Thompson, and gets raped while drunk towards the end but decides to continue her relationship with her attacker.
Kingsley Amis