Harry Caldecote, former librarian, finds retirement anything but restful.
He expected the freedoms of age and of the 1980s. Instead, he gets something like bondage: responsibility for everyone he knows -- his grown children, his brother, even worse his sister, who arrives to keep house. How can Harry mount his amorous adventures with time and privacy shorn away?
Yet desire and duty, love and loyalty, are opposite sides of the same coin and in THE FOLKS THAT LIVE ON THE HILL Amis once again illuminates that irritating contradiction with characteristic wit and insight.
He expected the freedoms of age and of the 1980s. Instead, he gets something like bondage: responsibility for everyone he knows -- his grown children, his brother, even worse his sister, who arrives to keep house. How can Harry mount his amorous adventures with time and privacy shorn away?
Yet desire and duty, love and loyalty, are opposite sides of the same coin and in THE FOLKS THAT LIVE ON THE HILL Amis once again illuminates that irritating contradiction with characteristic wit and insight.
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Hardback Editions
January 1995 : Hardback
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June 1990 : Hardback
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March 1990 : Hardback
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January 1990 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
March 1991 : Paperback
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February 1991 : Paperback
 | Title: Folks That Live on the Hill (New Portway Large Print Books) Author(s): Kingsley Amis ISBN: 0-7451-7255-5 / 978-0-7451-7255-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1991 : Paperback
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January 1990 : Paperback
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Audio Editions
March 1993 : Audio Cassette
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