Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-04 Pages: 320 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Classics In Kingsley Amiss Take A Girl Like You. twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste. which is why Patrick Standish. an arrogant schoolmaster . wants her so much. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south. wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles. challenges our assumptions about the battle of the sexes and classes in Britain. It is a story about the squalid business of the man and the woman and the most wonderful thing that had ever happened to Jenny Bunn.Few twentieth century novelists have explored our preoccupation with sex like Kingsley Amis. The results are surprising and often hilarious.

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ISBN13: 9780141194271

PENGUIN BOOK LTD,UK, 2013

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