Difficulties with Girls (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Kingsley Amis
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Psychology or psychologists, Adultery, London, Publishing or publishers
- Locales: London, England
Here the reader will find all the marks of Amis’ irreverent art: the unrivalled nastiness, the cast of characters the author loves to loathe, the careful depiction of social detail and rituals, the gleeful bashing of all that is false or merely fashionable, and above all the always strained, often farcical relations between the sexes.
DIFFICULTIES WITH GIRLS is set in 1967, nearly eight years since Patrick Standish, now thirty-six, and his wife Jenny, twenty-eight, first met in an earlier Amis novel, TAKE A GIRL LIKE YOU (1960), seven since the miscarriage which has left them...
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