Martin amis is an english essayist, novelist, screenwriter, and writer of short stories. Young jenny bunn comes to infantteach outside of london and is quite determined to lose the narrowminded ideas of her north country home. May 04, 2015 a still from the 1970 film version of take a girl like you. It is with his fourth novel, take a girl like you, that amis again hit his stride. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis, christian lorentzen. Buy take a girl like you book online at best prices in india on. Lucky jim by kingsley amis classics corner books the. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis, paperback barnes. We personally assess every book s quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures.
Kingsley amis was a reputed novelist from england, who was famous for writing fiction, humor, and horror novels. 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. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. He was also a well known critic, poet, and teacher. Take a girl like you directed by nick hurran alibris. Martin louis amis was born on august 25, 1949, in oxford. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis librarything. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices.
Once you have submitted your order you will receive confirmation and status update emails. The titular girl is jenny bunn sienna guillory, a beautiful and virginal young woman who has the exhausting habit of inspiring lust in every man and certain. Kingsley amis s 192295 works take a humorous yet highly critical look at british society, especially in the period following the end of world war ii. Kingsley amis books list of books by author kingsley amis. Apr 10, 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. Buy take a girl like you by kingsley amis from amazons fiction books store. 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. Based on the 1960 novel take a girl like you by kingsley amis, it was adapted by george melly.
Complete summary of kingsley amis take a girl like you. Buy take a girl like you book online at low prices in. 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. Buy take a girl like you by amis, kingsley from amazons fiction books store. Book 1 of 2 in the patrick standish and jenny bunn series. Take a girl like you penguin modern classics ebook. Take a girl like you may well be kingsley amiss most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work. Its fair to say that in the late 1950s kingsley amis was riding high. Im not the kind of reader who needs to actually like characters or root for them, or for one of them in order to like a book.
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. Amis had written over 20 novels, numerous short stories, a memoir, 6 poetry volumes, scripts for television and radio, literary and social criticism works, etc. While amis made his reputation with the satiric fiction of his early novels such as lucky jim, that uncertain feeling 1956, and take a girl like you 1960, in his 48 year career amis has written over 40 books in a wide range of genres including mysteries, ghost stories, science fiction, social commentaries, literary studies, and memoirs. The daughter of a north england hearse driver, miss bunn is prim and proper until she attends a party at the end given by one julian ormerod, where she is. The narrative follows the progress of twentyyearold jenny bunn, who has moved from her family home. The narrative follows the progress of twentyyearold jenny bunn, who has moved from her family home in the north of england to a small town not far from london to teach primary school children. Take a girl like you nyrb classics kindle edition by. In 1954, lucky jim had made him the leading novelist of his generation.
Take a girl like you is a comic novel by kingsley amis. Buy take a girl like you book online at low prices in india. Take a girl like you ebook by kingsley amis rakuten kobo. See all books authored by kingsley amis, including lucky jim, and the old devils, and more on. Apr 04, 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. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Kingsley amis books list of books by kingsley amis. Johns college, oxford, in 1941, and meets his fellowstudent philip larkin, then a stony boy with an oblique sense of humor. Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old jenny bunn, as she moves from her family ho. These characters, with names like julian ormerod or dick thompson. Born in london, amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as that uncertain feeling 1955. The great satiristwriterdirector jonathan millers only venture into cinema, take a girl like you 1970 is an adaptation of the kingsley amis novel about a virginal young woman, jenny hayley mills, in one of her first adult roles, and the men who pursue her, particularly patrick oliver reed, who. 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. His next two novels were generally regarded as disappointments, at least relative to lucky jim.
Take a girl like you is a tad different from the old letchs other works that ive read. Take a girl like you nyrb classics kindle edition by amis. He is known for books like london fields made into a 2018 movie starring amber heard among others and money. Take a girl like you is a 1970 british comedy film directed by jonathan miller and starring hayley mills, oliver reed and noel harrison. Jenny bunn, a girl from the english north country come south to teach.
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. It also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in amiss rogueridden world. In kingsley amiss take a girl like you, twenty year old jenny bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly. Its heroine is a genuinely good girl surrounded by leering men who want to sample her virginity. Apr 28, 2015 take a girl like you may well be kingsley amiss most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work. Buy take a girl like you by amis kingsley from amazons fiction books store. In this sort of light realist novel, im not sure its correct to talk about a plot, its more a sequence of events loosely strung on a fairly simple. A still from the 1970 film version of take a girl like you.
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