That Uncertain Feeling (novel)

First US edition
(publ. Harcourt Brace, 1956)

That Uncertain Feeling is a comic novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1955.[1]

In 1961, the book was made into a film starring Peter Sellers, with the title changed to Only Two Can Play, to avoid confusion with similar contemporary titles.[2] It was also adapted by the BBC in 1986 as a television series, starring Denis Lawson and Sheila Gish, this time with the original title.

Plot

A satire on life and culture in a Welsh seaside town, the story concerns a married librarian who begins an affair with the bored wife of a local bigwig. Amis, an English incomer to Swansea in real life, mocks Wales's devotion to culture and learning as false and pretentious.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Nick Bentley (2007). Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s. Peter Lang. p. 303. ISBN 978-3-03910-934-0.
  2. ↑ Films and Filming. Hansom Books. 1966. p. 20.
  3. ↑ Jeffrey Richards (15 September 1997). Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army. Manchester University Press. p. 227. ISBN 978-0-7190-4743-5.


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