Lucky Jim

''His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night and then as a mausoleum. During the night too he''d somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad. '' Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without: the tedious and ridiculous Professor Welch a neurotic and unstable girlfriend Margaret burnt sheets medieval recorder music and over-enthusiastic students. If he can just deliver a lecture on ''Merrie England'' a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck life is never simple. . Language: English