Take a Girl Like You
Publication details: United Kingdom; Penguin Books Ltd; 2013Description: 288 Pages; PaperbackISBN:- 9780141194271
- 823.91
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Karachi In Store | 823.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Withdrawn | Book Bazaar | PKLC002753 | ||
Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 | Lahore Adult Fiction | 823.91 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Withdrawn | For Sale | PKLC002955 |
In Kingsley Amis' "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. 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 Britain. It is a story about 'the squalid business of the man and the woman' and 'the most wonderful thing that had ever happened' to Jenny Bunn. Few twentieth century novelists have explored our preoccupation with sex like Kingsley Amis. The results are surprising and often hilarious.
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