That Uncertain Feeling (novel)

1955 novel by Kingsley Amis

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

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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] In The Old Devils, one of the central characters, the writer Alun Weaver, is portrayed as a "stage-Taffy"; Weaver is the memoirist of a fictional Welsh poet based loosely on Dylan Thomas.[4]

## References

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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.
4. ^ Merritt Moseley (1993). Understanding Kingsley Amis. Univ of South Carolina Press. pp. 155. ISBN 978-0-87249-861-7.

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Kingsley Amis

Novels|

* Lucky Jim (1954)
* That Uncertain Feeling (1955)
* I Like It Here (1958)
* Take a Girl Like You (1960)
* The Anti-Death League (1966)
* Colonel Sun (1968)
* The Green Man (1969)
* Girl, 20 (1971)
* The Alteration (1976)
* Jake's Thing (1978)
* Stanley and the Women (1984)
* The Old Devils (1986)
* The Folks That Live on the Hill (1990)
* The Russian Girl (1992)

Non-fiction|

* The James Bond Dossier (1965)
* The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 (1965)
* The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2001)

Film and
television adaptations|

* Lucky Jim (1957)
* Only Two Can Play (1962)
* Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (1967)
* Take a Girl Like You (1970)
* The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (1982)
* That Uncertain Feeling (1986)
* The Green Man (1990)
* Stanley and the Women (1991)
* The Old Devils (1992)
* Take a Girl Like You (2000)
* Lucky Jim (2003)

Related|

* Elizabeth Jane Howard (wife)
* Martin Amis (son)
* Robert Markham (pseudonym)
* Lemmons (home)

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