A riotous satire of English university life, the engaging and high-spirited Lucky Jim had a huge impact in its time, setting the style for postwar fiction and helping to define the generation of “Angry Young Men” in 1950s Britain. But this Angry Young Man is as funny as they come, and the novel’s send-up—its explosion, really—of the codes and constraints of both British and academic snobbery has a reckless verve that is both entertaining and exhilarating.
Delicious satire that still stands up to today's standards.I read Lucky Jim 35 years ago, and I feel like I should re read it again soon, in light of the things going on in society today
A funny satire. I liked the part when Jim told Bertrand what he really thought of him.I can imagine Bertrand thinking "No one can think that about ME".
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