{"product_id":"9780141194271-take-a-girl-like-you","title":"Take A Girl Like You","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Kingsley Amis's \u003ci\u003eTake A Girl Like You, \u003c\/i\u003etwenty 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew twentieth century novelists have explored our preoccupation with sex like Kingsley Amis. The results are surprising and often hilarious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as \u003ci\u003eThat Uncertain Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e (1955). His other works include \u003ci\u003eThe Green Man \u003c\/i\u003e(1970), \u003ci\u003eStanley and the Women\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), and \u003ci\u003eThe Old Devils\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30341361107041,"sku":"9780141194271","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32224165.jpg?v=1737102472","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141194271-take-a-girl-like-you","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}