Jenny has rented a room in the home of a middleaged couple, dick and martha thompson. This is amiss fourth novel, after lucky jim, that uncertain feeling and i like it here and it is widely regarded as one of his best. Kingsley amiss most ambitious reckoning with his central themethe degradation of modern lifetake a girl like you also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in amiss rogueridden world. The novel opens with jenny bunns arrival at her lodginghouse.
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Complete summary of kingsley amis take a girl like you. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets patrick standish oliver reed, one of the local lads. Amis spent a year as a visiting fellow in the creative writing. Jenny bunn, a girl from the english north country come south to teach school in a small smug town where. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis book 156 editions published between 1960 and 2015 in 6 languages and held by 1,490 worldcat member libraries worldwide. Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twentyyearold jenny bunn, as she moves from her family home in the north of england to a london suburb to teach primary school children. Young jenny bunn hayley mills heads to the south of england to start a new career as a school teacher. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. These characters, with names like julian ormerod or dick thompson. Lucky jim by kingsley amis classics corner books the.
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Take a girl like you may well be kingsley amiss most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work. The times listed him ninth in their last of the 50 greatest british writers since 1945. With hayley mills, oliver reed, noel harrison, john bird. But in 1955, when amis started writing take a girl like you its working title was song of the. Buy take a girl like you by amis, kingsley from amazons fiction books store. Jenny bunn, a girl from the english north country come. Take a girl like you kingsley amis 1702 by doll house. I want it now 1968 and girl, 20 1971 both depict the swinging atmosphere of london in the late 1960s, in which amis certainly participated, though neither book is strictly autobiographical. Nor, when i later reprinted my essay in a book, did i extend it to include consideration of that novel. The narrative follows the progress of twentyyearold jenny bunn, who has moved from her family home. She is helped on her way by the owners of her digs, dick and martha thompson, a fellow boarder, anna le page, assorted acquaintances and patrick standish, teaching in a nearby college, who resists falling seriously in love with her. 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. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis librarything.
Take a girl like you by kingsley amis narrative drive. Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old jenny bunn, as she moves from her family ho. Lucky jim, his first novel, appeared in 1954 to great acclaim and won a somerset maugham award. Order of kingsley amis books kingsley amis was a prolific author, poet, and critic who was considered to be one of the finest comic novelist of the twentieth century. Jun 14, 20 in kingsley amis s 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. With sienna guillory, rupert graves, robert daws, emma chambers. According to the wikipedia notes on take a girl like you by kingsley amis, the author takes great care to describe minutiae in much detail. It is with his fourth novel, take a girl like you, that amis again hit his stride.