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Kingsley Amis' Girl 20

Larkin was actually a racist. Even some of the private stuff sounded campy to me whenever, maybe I'm in denial. Kingsley Amis wrote a piece for The Telegraph called How or Why Lucky Jim Turned Right. He supported the Vietnam War because it was so unpopular to do. It seemed like a very Kingsley thing. But if you ever, if you need a novel to read that is a great, phenomenal piece of writing, totally forgotten about, but just an incredible time capsule is his novel Girl 20.

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