Take a Girl Like You - Softcover

Amis, Kingsley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014029080X ISBN 13: 9780140290806

Publisher: Penguin, 2000

Synopsis

The wickedly witty Kingsley Amis classic comes to life in a hilarious three-part drama about the difference between lust and love. When gorgeous young Jenny Bunn goes south to teach, she gets more than she ever bargained for. Though flirty and mischieveous, Jenny is still a virgin and the competition to seduce her soon heats up.

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Review:

"Has the comic gusto, the loathing of pretension that made "Lucky Jim" so engaging and high-spirited." --Elizabeth Jennings, "The Listener"
"One of the best of Britain's post-war novelists...he is a remarkable man and a remarkable wrier." --"The Independent"
"Incendiary stuff...a really formidable blaze. This is his most interesting so far...and no less funny than the first." --Karl Miller, "The Observer"

"Incendiary stuff...a really formidable blaze." --Karl Miller, "The Observer"
"Has the comic gusto, the loathing of pretension that made "Lucky Jim" so engaging and high-spirited." --Elizabeth Jennings, "The Listener"
"Jenny is the most serious and most successful character in Amis's work. . . . She is an improbable but convincing blend of sexy good looks with solid domestic instincts, feminine gentleness with the toughness of the slums. One of the funniest scenes Amis has written is the triumph of Jenny as a schoolmistress--twisting arms, dodging verbal filth, and maintaining order among her little hoodlums with a ladylike ruthlessness all her own. Jenny rightly holds the center of the stage."
--Ellen Moers, " Commentary"

Incendiary stuff...a really formidable blaze. Karl Miller, "The Observer"
Has the comic gusto, the loathing of pretension that made"Lucky Jim"so engaging and high-spirited. Elizabeth Jennings, "The Listener"
Jenny is the most serious and most successful character in Amis s work. . . . She is an improbable but convincing blend of sexy good looks with solid domestic instincts, feminine gentleness with the toughness of the slums. One of the funniest scenes Amis has written is the triumph of Jenny as a schoolmistress twisting arms, dodging verbal filth, and maintaining order among her little hoodlums with a ladylike ruthlessness all her own. Jenny rightly holds the center of the stage.
Ellen Moers, "Commentary""

Synopsis:

A virgin's progress amid orgy and seduction. When attractive little Jenny Bunn comes south to teach, she falls in with Patrick Standish, a schoolmaster, and all the rakes and rogues of a provincial "Hell Fire Club".

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 014029080X
• ISBN 13: 9780140290806
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320