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Kingsley Amis, along with being the funniest English writer of his generation was a great chronicler of the fads and absurdities of his age, and Girl, 20 is a delightfully incisive dissection of the flower-power phase of the 1960s. Amis’s antihero, Sir Roy Vandervane, a conductor and composer who bears more than a passing resemblance to Leonard Bernstein, is a pillar of the establishment whohas fallen hard for protest, bellbottoms, and the electric guitar. And since vain Sir Vandervane is a great success, he is also free to pursue his greatest failing: a taste for younger and younger women. Highborn hippie Sylvia (not, in fact, twenty) is his latest infatuation and a threat to his whole family, from his drama-queen wife, Kitty, to Penny, his long-suffering daughter.
All this is recounted by Douglas Yandell, a music critic with his own love problems, who finds that he too has a part in this story of botched artistry, bumbling celebrity, and scheming family, in a time that for all its high-minded talk is as low and dishonest as any other.
- Sales Rank: #496602 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-09-17
- Released on: 2013-09-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“As always, Amis’s aim at the modern world, not to mention eternal human foibles, is dead on.” —Los Angeles Times
“After the early splash with Lucky Jim, Kingsley’s books got better and better, until a peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he published The Green Man; Girl, 20 (my favorite); and Ending Up.” —Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The Atlantic Monthly
“In Girl, 20 the character of whom Amis most disapproves politically is also made irresistibly charming, while—this is a really brilliant knight’s move—the activity on which Amis himself had expended the most time (adultery) is shown by the actions of this very charmer as destructive to all parties.”—Christopher Hitchens
“For satiric ends the cast of characters has been adroitly shaped to expose a sort of folie à deux in which youth and an aging misleader of youth contribute equally to the mischief.” —The New York Times
“I never found Lucky Jim—which launched Kingsley Amis—all that funny, but Girl, 20 is. It’s one of those deft comedies the British seem to specialize in—a story that makes us laugh without being outrageous, manic, obscene, anti-patriotic or ethnic. It satirizes society without trying to bring it crashing down around our ears. It does not smear the Absurd like catchup on everything in sight. There is no gimmicky situation to set you thinking of Alan Arkin or Woody Allen. Its effects are derived mostly from its characters, who are all recognizable contemporary types. Their actions are funny not because they are inconsistent—the famous non sequitur syndrome invented by American wits—but because they are not, because these people keep plugging away, with varying degrees of ingenuity and success, at the peculiar, but not unusual stratagems for getting what they want.... Sir Roy is a first-class character, possibly Amis’s best.” —Anatole Broyard, The New York Times
“In his rollicking novel about the absurdities of the Sixties, Girl, 20, Kingsley Amis created a character who responded to each outbreak of pseudery with a phrase that he loathed. ‘School of Thought!’ he would exclaim; or ‘Christian Gentleman!’ ” —The Daily Telegraph
“In this book Sir Roy Vandervane at 54 embodies the best of the past, in that he is a talented symphonic conductor, good violinist, knowledgeable composer. He is also selling out to the future and the present, as represented by his long hair, his rich man’s radical chic, permissiveness, with-it views on everything including rock music, and above all a bird named Sylvia who is just one-third as old as Roy.... This precocious little horror is a successful creature, one of those arrogant bullies of spontaneity who will imply that you are fascist if you make unhip remarks like ‘what time is it’ or ‘where are we going?’ Amis scores such precise hints as having Sir Roy guess wrong ‘about what Sylvia would like to do,’ itself such a substantial proportion of her total outlook upon the world.” —Robert Pinsky, Los Angeles Times
“His novels of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which was in many ways his most confident and interesting period, include two powerfully expressive, minatory masterpieces in Ending Up and Girl, 20.” —Philip Hensher, The Spectator
About the Author
Kingsley Amis (1922–1995) was a popular and prolific British novelist, poet, and critic, widely regarded as one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century. Born in suburban South London, the only child of a clerk in the office of the mustard-maker Colman’s, he went to the City of London School on the Thames before winning an English scholarship to St. John’s College, Oxford, where he began a lifelong friendship with fellow student Philip Larkin. Following service in the British Army’s Royal Corps of Signals during World War II , he completed his degree and joined the faculty at the University College of Swansea in Wales. Lucky Jim, his first novel, appeared in 1954 to great acclaim and won a Somerset Maugham Award. Amis spent a year as a visiting fellow in the creative writing department of Princeton University and in 1961 became a fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, but resigned the position two years later, lamenting the incompatibility of writing and teaching (“I found myself fit for nothing much more exacting than playing the gramophone after three supervisions a day”). Ultimately he published twenty-four novels, including science fiction and a James Bond sequel; more than a dozen collections of poetry, short stories, and literary criticism; restaurant reviews and three books about drinking; political pamphlets and a memoir; and more. Amis received the Booker Prize for his novel The Old Devils in 1986 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. He had three children, among them the novelist Martin Amis, with his first wife, Hilary Anne Bardwell, from whom he was divorced in 1965. After his second, eighteen-year marriage to the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard ended in 1983, he lived in a London house with his first wife and her third husband.
Howard Jacobson is the author of eleven novels, among them Kalooki Nights and the Booker Prize-winning The Finkler Question. He writes a weekly column about culture for The Independent and has published several works of nonfiction, including Roots Schmoots and Seriously Funny.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Revivifying through lust and selfish destruction
By Ethan Cooper
Roy Vandervane is a prominent orchestral conductor and left-leaning public figure in Swinging London. Roy, who is 54, has a chaotic personal life. This includes a girl friend who will soon turn 18, two despondent and needy twenty-something children from his first marriage, an angry six year-old son who needs structure and attention, and a drama-queen second wife who lives every moment on the edge of hysterical despair. Roy also has a friend, Douglas Yandell, who is a drinking buddy and classical music critic that is twenty years Roy’s junior.
The brilliant Roy is a difficult man. He is funny and likable in an outré manner. But he also has the habit of living selfishly and recklessly and then, motivated by an aggressive guilt, letting people know he is misbehaving. Thus, Kitty, Roy’s second wife, knows about the girlfriend. And Doug, who thinks music stopped with Schoenberg, learns indirectly from Roy that he is planning to perform a jazz-style composition before a trendy young crowd while backed by a rock band. This, the conservative Doug believes, will undermine the credibility of Roy who, as a Mahler interpreter and conductor, is able to “decisively lift the orchestra” to “that rare and exalted level” of “the best second-rate.”
The funny GIRL, 20 primarily explores two themes. The first is embedded in the middle-aged Roy’s desperation to experience a risky and illicit relationship. Speaking within finger-quotes to Doug, he sarcastically headlines his sexual shenanigans as: ’Ageing shag tries to stimulate jaded appetite by creating situation of days of firse [sic] discovery of sex plus whiff of illegality, corruption of youth, dirty old man luring a child into disused… hut and plying her with wine gums… to induce her to remove knickers and slake his vile lust. That’s it exactly. Not a better description possible. Hit the thing right on the head.’ The not-young Roy also wonders how much time he has left. And this was certainly a valid concern for Amis’s generation, when men like the sixtyish Alun [sic] Weaver suddenly drops dead in THE OLD DEVILS, a later and Booker-winning Amis novel.
The second major theme of GIRL, 20 is providing help and emotional support to those in need. In this case, the King’s focus is on Doug, who Roy, Kitty, and Penny, Roy’s daughter, ask for help. There is the exception of Roy’s music, where the unwanted Doug does intervene and provides what he considers help to Roy. But otherwise, the support the passive and tolerant Doug provides is more like companionship than concern or advocacy. IMHO, Amis handles this theme with great skill. First, he shows Doug starting to recognize this shortcoming in his character through his amusingly distant relationship with Viv, his concupiscent girlfriend. But at the novel’s conclusion, Doug starts to recognize what real help entails, as the desperate Penny, who has inherited her father’s musical propensities and self-destructiveness, asserts herself.
Rounded up and recommended.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
I enjoyed this a great deal
By cheesis
I enjoyed this a great deal.Probably not on par with Lucky Jim, but it's been so long since I read that book. that I can't say as I'm sure.Ending is poignant and sad, lending the book a more serious note than one might have expected
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Here's Looking at You, Kid...
By M. Buzalka
Girl, 20 (1971) is a comedy of manners and a commentary on the social changes taking place in Britain at the time. The story is told in first person from the perspective of Douglas Yandell, a freelance music critic who gets caught in the middle when his friend the noted classical conductor Sir Roy Vandervane takes up with a teenage girl and he is asked to intercede by both Vandervane’s wife Kitty and daughter Penny on one side of the conflict, and by Vandervane himself on the other side.
Randell has respect for Vandervane as a musician but thinks he’s making a fool of himself (the book’s title comes from a monologue by Vandervane regarding the attraction young females have on middle aged men just through the mention of their age alone), plus the girl is a piece of work not easy to endure by anyone except, apparently, Vandervane. The story is really a series of scenes in which Yandell interacts with the various figures in the drama, as well as his own girlfriend Vivienne with whom he has a loose relationship.
All this is presented along with a running commentary from the mildly conservative Yandell about the social changes occurring in the country. In all a very entertaining piece of work from the author of Lucky Jim, Take a Girl Like You and I Want It Now.
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