Take a Girl Like You
| Author | : Kingsley Amis |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2015-04-28 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781590177983 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1590177983 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (983 Downloads) |
Download or read book Take a Girl Like You written by Kingsley Amis and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.