{"product_id":"lucky-jim","title":"Lucky Jim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book'\u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand. Inspired by Amis's friend, the poet Philip Larkin, Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character, adrift in a hopelessly gauche and pretentious world, in a witty campus novel that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an introduction by David Lodge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 272 pages | Published May 2000\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63977815572829,"sku":"9780141182599","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/lucky-jim","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}