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      Take a Girl Like You

      by Kingsley Amis
      Published
      Oct 1970
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      Take a Girl Like You may well be Kingsley Amis's most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work: the sheer squaloremotional, material, sexual, you name itof modern life. It also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in Amis's rogue-ridden world: Jenny Bunn, a girl from the (English) north country come south to teach school in a small smug town where she hopes to find love and fortune. Jenny is a beauty and men and women are crazy about her, most of all handsome Patrick Standish, who Jenny also likes. But Jenny and Patrick live in a world where it's becoming ridiculously difficultdisastrously difficultto sort out the claims of sex and the claims of love.

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      First Edition Oct 1970 Signet ISBN13 9780451042392 ISBN10 0451042395
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