I Like It Here (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Kingsley Amis
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Social satire
- Time of Work: The mid-1950’s
- Setting: London and Portugal
- Principal Characters: Garnet Bowen, Barbara Bowen, Bennie Hyman, Wulfstan Strether
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: 1950’s, Traveling or travelers, Authors or writers, Novelists, London, Publishing or publishers, Ethics, Work or workers, Portugal or Portuguese people
- Locales: London, England, Portugal
The Novel
Garnet Bowen, formerly a journalist, now a part-time reviewer and essayist with ambitions to be a dramatist, lives somewhat hand-to-mouth, supporting his wife and three young children, hoping for something more permanent in the literary trade. He is equally elated and deflated by a commission for an article on European travel which will pay well but obliges him to go to the Continent. Bowen hates leaving London, and particularly despises anything to do with traveling in Europe.
His reluctance to go abroad is further eroded by the chance to make a bit of money...
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