Rok 1976. Świat utkwił intelektualnie i duchowo w mrokach średniowiecza, odkąd Marcin Luter został w XVI wieku papieżem. Po ulicach jeżdżą baruchy, elektryczność uchodzi za rzecz niebezpieczną, schizmatyk to najgorsza obelga, tymczasem zaś Anglia opłakuje śmierć Jego Pobożnej Wysokości Stefana III. Hubert Anvil, obdarzony niebiańskim głosem dziesięciolatek, śpiewa na pogrzebie władcy. Uroczystość uświetniają swą obecnością Fe-dericus Mirabilis i Lupigradus Viaventosa, którzy przybyli prosto z Rzymu i mają ustalić, czy genialnie utalentowany chłopiec nadaje się do Chóru Sykstyńskiego. Aby ocalić jego dar, konieczna będzie kastracja, sztuka bowiem wymaga ofiar.
In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally 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, 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 twentieth century novelists have explored our preoccupation with sex like Kingsley Amis. The results are surprising and often hilarious.
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 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.
'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book' Guardian
'A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times
Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand. Inspired by Amis's friend, the poet Philip Larkin, Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character, adrift in a hopelessly gauche and pretentious world, in a witty campus novel that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life.
With an introduction by David Lodge
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