by Kingsley Amis · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141194226
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«Difficulties With Girls» is Kingsley Amis's comic novel, published by Penguin Books in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish live in London with their courtship behind them. Patrick works at a publishing house and Jenny teaches sick children. Their calm is shaken by seductive whisky-loving neighbours, the confused Ted Valentine and the literary scene of Hampstead. Amis ironises about a marriage hard to preserve when they long for another life.
It is the second instalment of the «Patrick Standish and Jenny Bunn» series, which began with Take a Girl Like You. It belongs to the Penguin Modern Classics collection.
For readers of literary fiction and British humour, especially those interested in the work of Kingsley Amis.
Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986). His biographer Zachary Leader called Amis "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." In 2008, The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. He was the father of the novelist Martin Amis. Amis was knighted in 1990.
