Amis returns
I Want It Now. By Kingsley Amis. Jonathan Cape. 255 pp. $9.10.
The novels of Kingsley Amis are being re-issued in a uniform collected edition of which this is the first. Published in 1968, “I Want It Now’’ has worn rather better than some of the author’s other work. Mr Amis pokes wicked fun at people who are richer than he is, and at television producers who have perfected the smile sincere and the programme penetrating. The tawdry banter which television passes off as “informed debate on significant issues” oozes from the novel. “God what a decadent lot we are. All of us. In our various ways,” remarks one television commentator proudly after a particularly biased and empty programme. Mr Amis makes much clever mischief from that decadence.
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Press, 12 November 1977, Page 17
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