Lucky Jim Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction (1999) the internationally bestselling author of

the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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tracing their growth from the tenth century to the twelfth

acid-tongued Circe

Lucky Jim Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction (1999) the internationally bestselling author ofA hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature. Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that "there was no