He’s alcoholic and a womanizer, and spends pretty much the entire novel either thinking about sex or booze. The protagonist of The Green Man, Maurice Allington, is definitely flawed. But it’s an effective supernatural horror story, containing subtle moments of terror, amusing social satire, and an unflinching character study. Like I said, I’m not a huge fan of Lucky Jim, so I didn’t have high hopes coming into this novel. I was pleasantly surprised by The Green Man. In addition to The Green Man, he also wrote an alternative history science fiction novel ( The Alteration) and even a James Bond adventure. Anyway, by the late 60s, Amis was experimenting with genre fiction. Lucky Jim established Amis as a master satirist of British society, especially academic institutions. Amis is chiefly remembered for satirizing English academic life in Lucky Jim I personally was a little bored by that book, but it has achieved the status of classic nonetheless. When I picked up Kingsley Amis’ The Green Man, I had no idea that Amis wrote his own ghost story.
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