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"In the first full-length study since Amis's death, William Laskowski considers all of Amis's work, from his famous and sometimes infamous mainstream novels such as Lucky Jim, Stanley and the Women, and Jake's Thing to lesser-known works like We Are All Guilty; his genre fiction, from the award-winning science fiction novel The Alteration to his tribute to the golden age of detective fiction The Riverside Villa Murders; his criticism, from the groundbreaking science fiction study New Maps of Hell to his levelheaded guide to grammar, The King's English; and all of his anthologies, including collections of short stories, poetry, science fiction, English songs, and journalism. Laskowski finds Amis's greatest achievement in the products of his comic genius, which is grounded in an exquisite appreciation for, and handling of, the rhythms, cadences, and syntax of the English language. Inextricably linked with Amis's comic sense is his moral seriousness."--BOOK JACKET. "Laskowski shows how Amis's novels require the reader not only to make linguistic and cognitive sense of a chaotic social setting but also to act as ultimate moral arbiter in a world from which faith and belief have vanished."--BOOK JACKET.