Difficulties With Girls: A Novel - Hardcover

Amis, Kingsley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671675826 ISBN 13: 9780671675820

Publisher: Summit Books, 1989

Synopsis

Patrick Standish finds himself at the center of a whirlwind of woman trouble involving his neighbors, his coworkers, and his lovely wife, Jenny

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Patrick Standish, "hardly going bald at all" at 37, reads girlie magazines and is having an affair with the woman next door. His over-accommodating wife Jenny, 28 and still childless seven years after her miscarriage, cozies up to gamy ex-Washington journalist Oswald Hart in an effort to bring her cad of a husband to his senses. The Standishes' sexual and emotional warfare forms the hub of Amis's wobbly satirical lunge through late 1960s London. Besides Patrick, other men having "difficulties with girls" include Timothy Valentine, who left his wife to try homosexuality; Simon Giles, pompous manager at the publishing firm where Patrick works; and Stevie and Eric, a gay couple prone to flamboyant arguments. With Swiftian glee, Amis deflates a menagerie of poets, publishers, academics and other snobs, phonies and egomaniacs. Yet on the whole, his satire is a flaccid, tedious affair that could have been set in the '80s as easily as in the '60s.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Summit Books
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0671675826
• ISBN 13: 9780671675820
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276