Take a Girl Like You
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Take a Girl Like You
Narrated by:
Kristin Atherton
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Narrated by:
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Kristin Atherton
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Kingsley Amis
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Twenty-year-old Jenny Bunn is supremely 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, who 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.
Few 20th century novelists have explored our preoccupation with sex like Kingsley Amis. The results are surprising and often hilarious.
©1960 Kingsley Amis (P)2020 Penguin AudioIt’s the 1960s and it shows. Amis displays staggering talent for capturing believable characters, although proletarian they are not - despite his desire to make some of them seem it.
It’s a largely forgotten era now, perhaps somewhat for the better. The story is not the feature here - the characters are, and they are really interesting.
The performance by Atherton is nothing short of sensational. The way she renders all the discrete voices and gives punch to the text, which must have been testing at times, is outstanding. This alone makes it cheap at twice the price.
Compelling characters but unegrossing story, astoundingly well read by Kristin Atherton
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