In Kingsley Amiss 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 its so hard to preserve especially when Patrick and Jenny harbour deep yearnings for a different kind of life.Kingsley Amiss (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 That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works include The Green Man (1970) Stanley and the Women (1984) and The Old Devils (1986) which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry criticism and short stories. Review Incendiary stuff –ObserverThe gradual deepening texture which opens to deep feeling beneath the comic surface justifies it all –The Times About the Author Kingsley Amiss (1922-1995) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society especially in the period following the end of the Second World War. Born in London Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such asThat Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works includeThe ... See more
In Kingsley Amiss 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 its so hard to preserve especially when Patrick and Jenny harbour deep yearnings for a different kind of life.Kingsley Amiss (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 That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works include The Green Man (1970) Stanley and the Women (1984) and The Old Devils (1986) which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry criticism and short stories. Review Incendiary stuff –ObserverThe gradual deepening texture which opens to deep feeling beneath the comic surface justifies it all –The Times About the Author Kingsley Amiss (1922-1995) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society especially in the period following the end of the Second World War. Born in London Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such asThat Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works includeThe Green Man (1970)Stanley and the Women (1984) andThe Old Devils (1986) which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry criticism and short stories. He received a knighthood in 1990.