โ Craig Shaw Gardner
๐ Fiction
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2010
๐ UND
โ 129 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Difficulties With Girls
โ Scribed by Kingsley Amis
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd;Penguin Classics
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 209 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0141194227
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
In Kingsley Amis's Difficulties With Girls, Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life __ with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches sick children in a hospital. They have reached a certain level of maturity, or so they think. It is not long before they realize their respectability will be severely tested by seductive neighbours with a taste for whisky, the sexually confused Ted Valentine, and the literary set of Hampstead.
In this funny and provocative study of a young couple growing up, Amis shows us that the difficulty with marriage is that it's so hard to preserve, especially when Patrick and Jenny harbour deep yearnings for a different kind of life.
Kingsley 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...
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