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Take A Girl Like You

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Take A Girl Like You

By: Kingsley Amis
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
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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.

Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Funny Witty

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Crisply uttered and the characters are particularized. Jenny had never sprung off the page for me and this reading encourages me to go back to the book.

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