| Take a Girl Like You Contributor(s): Amis, Kingsley (Author), Lorentzen, Christian (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590177606 ISBN-13: 9781590177600 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Romance - General - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2014034372 |
| Series: Nyrb Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 7.9" (0.70 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |