Buy this book on-line AMIS**, KINGSLEY: : DIFFICULTIES WITH GIRLS.**LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1988. ISBN 009173505X.
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Set in London during the mid sixties, Amis's new (then 1988) novel explores the twin jungles of sexual liberation and office politics in a distinguished literary publishing house.The story opens with Patrick and Jenny Standish moving into their south-of-the-river flat at 1, Lower Ground.They and their fellow tenants
have little in common except,perhaps, difficulties with girls.Patrick succumbs all too easily to temptation,whether it be
to the wife of his neighbour,Harold Porter-King,or of his boss,the mysterious
Simon Giles.Another neighbour,Tim,is unsure whether he likes girls at all,and embarks on a hilarious quest to convince himself that he is a homosexual.
Eric and Stevie,the queens who share the fourth flat,have more difficulties with one another than they do with girls.
Perhaps only Jenny,who endures Patrick's adulterous liaisons in silence,knows what
she wants and emerges with a dignity that eludes the members of the opposite sex.
'Difficulties with Girls' reveals Amis in sparkling form,with a subject ideally suited to his unnerving talent for exposing the frailties of the spirit and of the flesh.See also rja531, and rja1222, rja2068, rja2070, rja2072, rja2073,and rja2101 for other Kingsley Amis titles.
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