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Verified Purchase. Stanley Duke is a not very faithful heavy drinker. He doesn't understand women and what he thinks that he understands makes him deeply distrustful of them. When his son experiences a break down (is it or is it not schizophrenia - doctors disagree as to the diagnosis and treatment) his world is turned upside down.
- Kingsley Amis
Bearing in mind that none of this analysis makes a jot of difference to the book itself – which I found funny and entertaining – I then sought out an interview with Martin Amis in which he said, “The critique of womankind that seeps its way through Jake’s Thing and Stanley and the Women is certainly not without interest or pertinence (both novels are sinisterly vigorous).
Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, cantankerous, half-baked or just plain capricious.
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Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son, Steve, goes insane. As if that weren't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women- neurotic, half- baked, critical or just plain capricious.
There is a clear autobiographical layer here .It's mentioned several times that Stanley ,like Amis is from a lower middle class South London background.And yes Amis was twice married and I couldn't help but wonder if Susan is a jaundiced portrait of Elizabeth Jane Howard.In all events, Amis wrote better novels than this both before and after STANLEY and that's a good thing.
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Stanley and the Women. Hardcover – 1 Aug. 1985. When he discovers that his son is going mad, beleaguered advertising manager Stanley Duke is charged by his first wife Nowell, and a Laingian psychiatrist with being the cause of his son's illness, and his second wife confesses that she hates him.
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- Kingsley Amis
