It was an unsettling experience to read Lucky Jim just as I was embarking on my Ph.D. student in the U.S., Lucky Jim had not much dated-and had indeed remained superior in every way to the flood of academic novels that had followed in its wake on both sides of the Atlantic.
Yet, as I soon discovered first-hand, initially during my encounters at several English universities and later as a Ph.D. It was a quarter-century after the publication of the novel and the British university world that it portrayed. Like so many others, I first met Amis in the pages of his hilarious debut novel when I read Lucky Jim in the mid-1970s before my first trip to England.
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