Take a Girl Like You (Ulverscroft General Series) - Hardcover

Amis, Kingsley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708929273 ISBN 13: 9780708929278

Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd, 1993

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".

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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""

About the Author:

Kingsley Amis (1922 1995) was a popular and prolific British novelist, poet, and critic, widely regarded as one of the greatest satirical writers of the twentieth century. Born in suburban South London, the only child of a clerk in the office of the mustard-maker Colman s, he went to the City of London School on the Thames before winning an English scholarship to St. John s College, Oxford, where he began a lifelong friendship with fellow student Philip Larkin. Following service in the British Army s Royal Corps of Signals during World War II, he completed his degree and joined the faculty at the University College of Swansea in Wales. "Lucky Jim," his first novel, appeared in 1954 to great acclaim and won a Somerset Maugham Award. Amis spent a year as a visiting fellow in the creative writing department of Princeton University and in 1961 became a fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, but resigned the position two years later, lamenting the incompatibility of writing and teaching ( I found myself fit for nothing much more exacting than playing the gramophone after three supervisions a day ). Ultimately he published twenty-four novels, including science fiction and a James Bond sequel; more than a dozen collections of poetry, short stories, and literary criticism; restaurant reviews and three books about drinking; political pamphlets and a memoir; and more. Amis received the Booker Prize for his novel "The Old Devils" in 1986 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. He had three children, among them the novelist Martin Amis, with his first wife, Hilary Anne Bardwell, from whom he was divorced in 1965. After his second, eighteen-year marriage to the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard ended in 1983, he lived in a London house with his first wife and her third husband.
Christian Lorentzen is an editor at the "London Review of Books.""

About this edition

• Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0708929273
• ISBN 13: 9780708929278
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 688