He is known for books like london fields made into a 2018 movie starring amber heard among others and money. Kingsley amis books list of books by kingsley amis. The narrative follows the progress of twentyyearold jenny bunn, who has moved from her family home. 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. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis, christian lorentzen. Take a girl like you ebook by kingsley amis rakuten kobo. 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. Young jenny bunn comes to infantteach outside of london and is quite determined to lose the narrowminded ideas of her north country home. Take a girl like you nyrb classics kindle edition by. Kingsley amis, christian lorentzen introduction paperback. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis librarything. Kingsley amis opened his career with the novel that remained his most famous work to the end of his life. Take a girl like you is a tad different from the old letchs other works that ive read. Martin amis is an english essayist, novelist, screenwriter, and writer of short stories.
In kingsley amiss take a girl like you, twenty year old jenny bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly. Kingsley amis was a reputed novelist from england, who was famous for writing fiction, humor, and horror novels. Lucky jim by kingsley amis classics corner books the. Take a girl like you penguin modern classics ebook. 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. In 1954, lucky jim had made him the leading novelist of his generation. It is with his fourth novel, take a girl like you, that amis again hit his stride. Take a girl like you is a comic novel by kingsley amis. 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. Take a girl like you may well be kingsley amis s most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work. 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. The next morning, a young neighbor stopped by their house. Buy take a girl like you by kingsley amis from amazons fiction books store.
Documented as a personal favorite of kingsley amis, take a girl like you, originally published in 1960, is peopled with subsidiary characters, ranging from the posh and pedantic to the proletarian and pessimistic. Complete summary of kingsley amis take a girl like you. 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. 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 directed by nick hurran alibris. Its fair to say that in the late 1950s kingsley amis was riding high. He was also a well known critic, poet, and teacher. 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. Once you have submitted your order you will receive confirmation and status update emails.
A still from the 1970 film version of take a girl like you. Born in london, amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as that uncertain feeling 1955. Take a girl like you may well be kingsley amiss most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Book 1 of 2 in the patrick standish and jenny bunn series.
Johns college, oxford, in 1941, and meets his fellowstudent philip larkin, then a stony boy with an oblique sense of humor. We personally assess every book s quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Northerner jenny arrives in a town near london, where she has taken. Take a girl like you nyrb classics kindle edition by amis. 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. 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. Kingsley amis books list of books by author kingsley amis.
Jenny bunn, a girl from the english north country come south to teach school in a small smug town. Martin louis amis was born on august 25, 1949, in oxford. 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. Kingsley amiss 192295 works take a humorous yet highly critical look at british society, especially in the period following the end of world war ii. Jenny bunn, a girl from the english north country come south to teach.
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. 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. 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. It also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in amiss rogueridden world. Kingsley amis, howard jacobson introduction paperback sep. Based on the 1960 novel take a girl like you by kingsley amis, it was adapted by george melly.
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. Its heroine is a genuinely good girl surrounded by leering men who want to sample her virginity. 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. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices.
Buy take a girl like you book online at low prices in india. Take a girl like you is a 1970 british comedy film directed by jonathan miller and starring hayley mills, oliver reed and noel harrison. His next two novels were generally regarded as disappointments, at least relative to lucky jim. 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.
These characters, with names like julian ormerod or dick thompson. See all books authored by kingsley amis, including lucky jim, and the old devils, and more on. Kingsley amis 19221995 was a popular and prolific british novelist, poet, and critic, widely regarded as one of. Take a girl like you by kingsley amis, paperback barnes. Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old jenny bunn, as she moves from her family ho. 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.
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