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Author Zachari Leader has hilariously recorded the drinking and philandering of late novelist Sir Kingsley Amis in the new biography The Life of Kingsley Amis. According to the New York Post, Kingsley, who wrote Lucky Jim and That Uncertain Feeling, often passed out from drinks at lunch and dinner. Amis, who died in 1995, was such a drinker, that his study had "a desk and chair at one end and three rows of empty whisky and wine bottles ranged around the walls" because he couldn’t think of throwing them away. "We used to take more or less a drinks cabinet with us. We used to go and sit in the front row . . . and then Kingsley would sort of say, ‘What’s yours, a gin and tonic?’ And out of pockets would come bottles and glasses and then a thermos with some ice in it and somebody would cut up a lemon," a friend recalled his movie experiences with Amis. As an expectant father, Amis used to deliberately leave his journal, marked ‘Private’, so that his wife, Hilly, could read it while she was pregnant with their son Philip. In the journal, he wrote vulgar details about other women and how he never wanted a child, as he wanted to trouble his wife in a funny way. "He quite liked torturing me in a funny way," Hilly recalled. Amis became a liberal dad once Martin was born, although his philandering continued even after this. —ANI
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