by Kingsley Amis · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141194271
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«Take a Girl Like You» is Kingsley Amis's satirical novel, published by Penguin Books in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Jenny Bunn, a girl from the north of England, moves south to work as a teacher and encounters Patrick Standish, a conceited professor who tries to win her over. Kingsley Amis portrays with humour and irony the tension between the sexes and classes in British society, in a coming-of-age story about maturity and female identity.
First novel in the Patrick Standish and Jenny Bunn series. Originally published in 1960; this 2013 edition belongs to the Penguin Modern Classics collection.
For readers of British literary fiction and modern classics who appreciate humour and social criticism in postwar narrative.
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.
