Take a Girl Like You
Synopsis
Take a Girl Like You may well be Kingsley Amis's most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work: the sheer squalor--emotional, material, sexual, you name it--of modern life. It also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in Amis's rogue-ridden world: Jenny Bunn, a girl from the (English) north country come south to teach school in a small smug town where she hopes to find love and fortune. Jenny is a beauty and men and women are crazy about her, most of all handsome Patrick Standish, who Jenny also likes. But Jenny and Patrick live in a world where it's becoming ridiculously difficult--disastrously difficult--to sort out the claims of sex and the claims of love.
- Copyright:
- 1960 Kingsley Amis
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9781590177983
- Publisher:
- New York Review Books
- Date of Addition:
- 2015-04-28T14:21:47Z
- Language:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.