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Take a Girl Like You
''Take a Girl Like You'' is a comic novel by Kingsley Amis. The narrative 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 central thread of the novel concerns the frustrations of the morally dubious Patrick Standish, a 30-year-old teacher at the local grammar school/public school and his attempts to, by hook or by crook, accomplish the seduction of Jenny; all this against a backdrop of Jenny's new teaching job and Patrick's work activities and his leisure time with flatmate and colleague Graham and their new acquaintance, the well-off and somewhat older man-about-town Julian Ormerod.
==Background==
''Take a Girl Like You'' is Kingsley Amis's fourth novel and is possibly his finest and most accomplished work. Unlike his previous novels, in which the point of view of the narrative is exclusively that of the male protagonist, in this one Amis has set himself the challenge of supplying the point of view of the female protagonist, Jenny Bunn and the male protagonist, Patrick Standish. Amis never allows the points of view to merge within the text but presents them in separate and alternating chunks, i.e. several chapters at a time. Although written in both cases in the third person, this device allows the reader to get inside the minds of the two people, see how they view their environments and each other and follow the development (or non-development) of their morals and outlooks on life.
Although they share an academic setting, unlike the eponymous hero of ''Lucky Jim'', who is, for all his comic antics, a fundamentally decent and morally upright figure, Patrick is a 'cool guy', a sports car-driver and 'skirt-chaser', who nevertheless maintains his teaching duties and even finds time for various other commitments such as play-staging, film club organising and local Labour Party involvement. Much of the novel's comic element stems from Amis's presentation of down-to-earth Jenny's observations of the curious ways of the Southerners around her and from Patrick's escapades, which have a tendency to backfire on him.
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