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Meet Jenny Bunn - young, gorgeous, thoroughly virginal - and the cause of lust in every man she meets..... But this is Britain in 1959 and Jenny is a nice girl, not given to acting impulsively, no matter how strong her desires. And her feelings for fellow-teacher Patrick Standish - a charming rake and compulsive womanizer - are dizzyingly strong. But does he really love her? Patrick is sure he doesn't love Jenny, yet can't seem to shake off his infatuation. Can it be that he's got it wrong and has fallen after all....
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"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"
About the Author:
"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""
Kingsley Amis has been acclaimed as the outstanding comic novelist of his generation. After the publication of LUCKY JIM in 1954, which has become a modern classic, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The Old Devils, winner of the Booker Prize. He wrote ephemerally on politics, eduction, films and restaurants. He was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0141802715
- ISBN 13 9780141802718
- BindingAudio Cassette
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