The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose -
are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive colle
ction gathers all Amis' short fiction in a single volume for the first time and
encompasses five decades of storytelling. In 'The 2003 Claret', written in 1958,
a time machine is invented for the weighty task of sending a man to 2010 to dis
cover what the booze will taste like.
