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19 mar 2012 · Rooney precisely articulates everything that's going on below the surface; there's humor and insight here as well as the pleasure of getting to know two prickly, complicated people as they try to figure out who they are and who they want to become. Absolutely enthralling. Read it. Share your opinion of this book. At the beginning of this novel ...
30 nov 1975 · The Anti-Death League of the title primarily reflects the rebellion of several of the characters against life’s tragedies, a kind of quixotic raging against the dying of the light. At one point, an actual Anti-Death League is contemplated but left largely stillborn as most of the characters find at least some sort of “wisdom with great death,” to quote Tennyson.
- Kingsley Amis
Summary. In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for death or against it? These men of action will travel between the barracks, the lunatic asylum and the house of an aristocratic nymphomaniac in search of answers.
8 mar 2022 · The Anti-Death League. "In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for death or against it?
In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for death or against it?
16 lug 2012 · For while few know the awful truth about Operation Apollo, the mission they are being trained for, fewer still understand the motives of the powerful psychiatrist Dr Best, who thinks he is surrounded by repressed homosexuals, and none know the identity of the secret agent among them. When the Anti-Death League is founded they are at last ...
7 giu 2012 · The Anti-Death League. Kingsley Amis. Penguin Books Limited, Jun 7, 2012 - Fiction - 304 pages. In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for death or against it?
