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Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1954
Pages
Pages 250

A junior history lecturer at a dreary English university fakes his way through pompous colleagues and disastrous parties, and blunders, at last, into the girl and the job that let him escape academia for good.

Dixon was alive again. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis

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