THE GREEN MAN by Kingsley Amis. 252 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $5.95.
After a decade writing what he calls "the more or less straight novel," Kingsley Amis migrated a few years ago toward science fiction (The Anti-Death League) and the James Bond spy thriller (Colonel Sun), written under the pseudonym of Robert Markham. Now, in The Green Man, he has drifted into the ghost story. What is Amis up to?
Partly he is seeking a form where it is still necessary to practice the old, unfashionable rites of careful plotting, factual scene setting and...
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