Lucky Jim

First novel 1954 by Kingsley Amis. The anti-hero Jim Dixon, a young history lecturer in a provincial university, is comically at odds with what he sees as the falsity of the life around him. Jim escapes from academia to a job offered by the rich uncle of his desirable conquest, the amenable Christine. Although much of the humour now seems puerile, the linguistic agility and vigour were evidence of an original new talent.