Ending Up
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Ending Up is a darkly comic novel by Kingsley Amis that follows a group of irritable elderly residents in a country house as they bicker, scheme, and confront the indignities of old age.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ending Up canonical | 1 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark comedy
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Kingsley Amis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFirstPublication | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
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comic novel ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasCharacterTrait |
irritable
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manipulative ⓘ petty ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
elderly residents
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pensioners ⓘ |
| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| hasMotive | characters bicker and scheme against each other ⓘ |
| hasReception |
critically acclaimed for its dark humor
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noted for unsentimental portrayal of old age ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
aging
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care of the elderly ⓘ dependency ⓘ friendship in old age ⓘ mental decline ⓘ physical decline ⓘ resentment ⓘ social isolation ⓘ |
| hasTargetOfSatire |
attitudes toward the elderly
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middle-class English manners ⓘ |
| length | short novel ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
death
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decline ⓘ family dysfunction ⓘ interpersonal conflict ⓘ loneliness ⓘ old age ⓘ |
| movement | postwar British fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | third-person narration ⓘ |
| narrativeTone | darkly comic ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Kingsley Amis bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
comic aspects of decline
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indignities of old age ⓘ petty cruelties among the elderly ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1974 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jonathan Cape NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
English countryside
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country house ⓘ |
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subject surface form:
Kingsley Amis