Take A Girl Like You (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Amis, Kingsley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141194278 ISBN 13: 9780141194271

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2013

Synopsis

In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles, challenges our assumptions about the battle of the sexes and classes in Britain. It is a story about 'the squalid business of the man and the woman' and 'the most wonderful thing that had ever happened' to Jenny Bunn.

Few twentieth century novelists have explored our preoccupation with sex like Kingsley Amis. The results are surprising and often hilarious.

Kingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works include The Green Man (1970), Stanley and the Women (1984), and The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories.

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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-04 Pages: 320 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Classics In Kingsley Amiss Take A Girl Like You. twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste. which is why Patrick Standish. an arrogant schoolmaster . wants her so much. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south. wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles. challenges our assumptions about the battle of the sexes and classes in Britain. It is a story about the squalid business of the man and the woman and the most wonderful thing that had ever happened to Jenny Bunn.Few twentieth century novelists have explored our preoccupation with sex like Kingsley Amis. The results are surprising and often hilarious.

About the Author:

Kingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works include The Green Man (1970), Stanley and the Women (1984), and The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0141194278
• ISBN 13: 9780141194271
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320