Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane, in this comic novel by Kingsley Amis. But Stanley"s troubles are far from over, as he finds himself beset on all sides by women-neurotic, cantankerous, half-baked, or just plain capricious. As one by one they gnaw away at his composure, Stanley wonders whether insanity is not something with which all women are intimately acquainted. When it appeared in 1984 (to be followed by the Booker Prize winner The Old Devils), Stanley and the Women was hailed by London"s Daily Telegraph as "the best of all Amis"s novels, and that is saying something."