Ending Up

Author: Kingsley Amis

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Price : 24.95 AUD
ISBN : 9780141194233
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Penguin Classics
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Weight (g) : 0.101
Publication date : 31 May 2011
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 7mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 24.95
Availability date : 01 August 2011
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Author : Kingsley Amis
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 1
Pages : 128
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At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs. The mismatched quintet keep their spirits alive by bickering and waiting for grandchildren to visit at Christmas. But the festive season does not herald goodwill to all at Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage. Disaster and chaos, it seems, are just around the corner ...Told with Amis' piercing wit and humanity, "Ending Up" (1974) is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age.