Take a Girl Like You

published	1976 by Penguin (Non-Classics)
binding	Paperback
isbn	0140018484 (isbn13: 9780140018486)
pages	320
description	TAKE A GIRL LIKE YOU is the story of attractive little Jenny Bunn, come south to teach and confront head-on, the cold, cold world. "The best ...more [close] TAKE A GIRL LIKE YOU is the story of attractive little Jenny Bunn, come south to teach and confront head-on, the cold, cold world. "The best novel Amis has written; it has the comic gusto, the loathing of pretension that made LUCKY JIM so engaging and high-spirited." (Listener) "Incendiary stuff...a really formidable blaze. This is his most interesting so far...and no less funny than the first." (Observer) [close]
date added	02-09-07 edit book

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07/25/07

I love Kingsley Amis, but this book is vile. His sexism -- simmering under the surface in much of his writing -- is on full display here, culminating in what today we would call a date rape. Skip this and read The Old Devils...or just read Lucky Jim again.

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