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Girl, 20

Yazan: Kingsley Amis
Seslendiren: Oliver Chris
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Douglas Yandell, a young-ish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be radical Sir Roy - as he embarks on yet another affair. Roy, meanwhile, wants Douglas as an alibi for his growing involvement with Sylvia, an unsuitably young woman who loves nothing more than to shock and provoke. Life soon becomes extremely complicated as Douglas finds himself caught up in a frantic, farcical tangle of relationships, rivalry and scandal.

Girl, 20 is a merciless send-up of 1970s London's permissive society from a master of uproarious comedy.

© Kingsley Amis 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

 Classics Genre Fiction Kurgu Literary Fiction
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'Not only a very funny book, it also hits dozens of nails smartly on the head'
'Kingsley Amis has a wicked ear ... and a stiletto pen for pseuds'
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One defect here is that the narrator manages to mispronounce most of the names of the various famous composers that are mentioned throughout the text. Given that this is a book about a conductor narrated by a music critic, it’s a fairly considerable irritant and baffling that no one involved seems to have heard of the likes of Weber or Haydn. Apart from that, it’s an enjoyable enough listen through one of Kingsley Amis’s most savagely satirical novels.

Strange pronunciation errors...

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I was really surprised at how modern the characters feel considering the book is from 1971 it’s baffling how far society hasn’t actually come. Same issues 50 years later, the voice actor I felt was really impressive at making the characters distinctive and getting a real feel for each person

Great voice acting, story holds up

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Kingsley once again proves himself a master of the comic. the wrestling scene is divinely funny. You'd have thought the narrator would have looked up how to pronounce certain composer's names, however.

divine comic prose

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... I liked the rendition of w***y Roy, who sounded different from and better than the way I have heard him in my mind's ear. Kitty and carroty Sylv wonderfully done. I can't see nonetheless why 'Weber(n)' is mispronounced; and on the the subject of words that aren't even homonyms, why don't people say 'demur' rather than 'demure' ??... interesting btw is Roy's anti-Americanism. A lot of British progressives can't get enough Americana 50 years after this was written.

Pretty good ...

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