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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, eighteenyear marriage to the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard ended in 1983, he lived in a London house with his first wife and her third husband.  \nHOWARD 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.  \nOTHER BOOKS BY KINGSLEY AMIS PUBLISHED BY NYRB CLASSICS  \nThe Alteration  \nIntroduction by William Gibson  \nThe Green Man  \nIntroduction by Michael Dirda  \nLucky Jim  \nIntroduction by Keith Gessen  \nThe Old Devils  \nIntroduction by John Banville  \nOne Fat Englishman Introduction by David Lodge  \nGIRL , 20  \nKINGSLEY AMIS  \nIntroduction by  \nHOWARD JACOBSON  \nNEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS  \nNew York  \nTHIS IS ANEW YORK REVIEW BOOK  \nPUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS  \n435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014  \n[www.nyrb.com](www.nyrb.com)  \nCopyright © 1971 by Kingsley Amis  \nIntroduction copyright © 2011 by Howard Jacobson All rights reserved.  \nCover image: Eric Hanson  \nCover design: Katy Homans  \nThe Library of Congress has cataloged the earlier printing as follows:  \nAmis, Kingsley.  \nGirl, 20 / by Kingsley Amis ; introduction by Howard Jacobson.  \npages; cm.—(New York review books classics) ISBN 978-1-59017-663-4 (alk. paper)  \n1. Middle-aged men—Fiction. 2. Young women—Fiction. 3. England—Fiction. I. Title. II. Title: Girl, twenty.  \nPR6001 .M6G5 2013 823' .914—dc23  \n2013015573  \neISBN 978-1-59017-690-0 v1 .0  \nFor a complete list of books in the NYRB Classics series, visit www.nyrb.com or write to: Catalog Requests, NYRB, 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014  \nCONTENTS  \nBiographical Notes  \nTitle page  \nCopyright and More Information Introduction  \nGIRL, 20  \nDedication  \n1. Imperialist Racist Fascist  \n2. Something Soft  \n3. The Night of the Favour  \n4. Great Wag  \n5. Absolute Rock  \n6. Christian Gentleman  \n7. Copes ’s Fork  \n8. Pigs Out  \n9. The Other Bloke  \n10. All Free Now  \nIntroduction  \nGirl, 20, Kingsley Amis ’s ninth novel, was published in 1971, seventeen years after Lucky Jim, his first. 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