{"product_id":"lucky-jim-paperback","title":"Lucky Jim (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book'\u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n'A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nJim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand. Inspired by Amis's friend, the poet Philip Larkin, Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character, adrift in a hopelessly gauche and pretentious world, in a witty campus novel that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nWith an introduction by David Lodge\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Kingsley Amis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45493181546674,"sku":"9780141182599","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/26728_4575_60cc6b742a7c43.39754434_9780141182599.jpg?v=1749126488","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/lucky-jim-paperback","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}