That_Uncertain_Feeling_(novel)

<i>That Uncertain Feeling</i> (novel)

That Uncertain Feeling (novel)

1955 novel by Kingsley Amis

That Uncertain Feeling is a comic novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1955.[1]

First US edition
(publ. Harcourt Brace, 1956)

In 1961, the book was made into a film starring Peter Sellers, with the title changed to Only Two Can Play, to avoid confusion with similar contemporary titles.[2] It was also adapted by the BBC in 1986 as a television series, starring Denis Lawson and Sheila Gish, this time with the original title.

Plot

A satire on life and culture in a Welsh seaside town, the story concerns a married librarian who begins an affair with the bored wife of a local bigwig. Amis, an English incomer to Swansea in real life, mocks Wales's devotion to culture and learning as false and pretentious.[3] In The Old Devils, one of the central characters, the writer Alun Weaver, is portrayed as a "stage-Taffy"; Weaver is the memoirist of a fictional Welsh poet based loosely on Dylan Thomas.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Nick Bentley (2007). Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s. Peter Lang. p. 303. ISBN 978-3-03910-934-0.
  2. [2]
    Films and Filming. Hansom Books. 1966. p. 20.
  3. [3]
    Jeffrey Richards (15 September 1997). Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army. Manchester University Press. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-7190-4743-5.
  4. [4]
    Merritt Moseley (1993). Understanding Kingsley Amis. Univ of South Carolina Press. pp. 155. ISBN 978-0-87249-861-7.


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