Take a girl like you
by Amis, Kingsley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j, red clothbound boards clean, gilt titling on spine bright, pages unmarked and tightl
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About This Item
London: Victor Gollancz, 1960. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j, red clothbound boards clean, gilt titling on spine bright, pages unmarked and tightly bound; sunning on endpapers, owner's inscription on front pastedown. A little foxing on edges.. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). A comic novel that follows the progress of twenty-year-old Jenny Bunn, who has moved from her family home in the North of England to a small town not far from London to teach primary school children. Jenny is a 'traditional' Northern working-class girl whose dusky beauty strikes people as being at odds with the old-fashioned values she has gained from her upbringing, not least the conviction of 'no sex before marriage'. A thread of the novel concerns the frustrations of the morally dubious Patrick Standish, a 30-year-old teacher at a local private secondary school and his attempts to seduce Jenny; all this occurs against a backdrop of Jenny's new teaching job, Patrick's work and his leisure time with flatmate and colleague Graham and their new acquaintance, the well-off and somewhat older man-about-town, Julian Ormerod.
Synopsis
Take A Girl Like You is a comic novel by Kingsley Amis. Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old Jenny Bunn, as she moves from her family home in the North of England to a London suburb to teach primary school children. Jenny is a traditional Northern working-class girl whose striking good looks are in sharp contrast to her prosaic upbringing, and to her strong belief that a girl should preserve her virginity until her wedding night.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC44477
- Title
- Take a girl like you
- Author
- Amis, Kingsley
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st edition, with unclipped d/j, red clothbound boards clean, gilt titling on spine bright, pages unmarked and tightl
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 320
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, Amis
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8\"\" x 5_\"\")
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