by Kingsley Amis · PENGUIN BOOKS LTD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140104332
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«Difficulties with Girls» is the contemporary fiction novel by Kingsley Amis, published by Penguin Books in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Set in London in the mid-1960s, the novel portrays personal and professional relationships in a prestigious publishing house, where the era's sexual liberation mingles with the intrigues and tensions of office politics.
The edition is from 1989, within the genre of contemporary fiction and English narrative.
Recommended for readers of contemporary fiction and twentieth-century English narrative, interested in a novel with sharp observation and humor.
Sir Kingsley William Amis was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, short stories, radio and television scripts, and works of social and literary criticism. He is best known for satirical comedies such as Lucky Jim (1954), One Fat Englishman (1963), Ending Up (1974), Jake's Thing (1978) and The Old Devils (1986). His biographer Zachary Leader called Amis "the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century." In 2008, The Times ranked him ninth on a list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. He was the father of the novelist Martin Amis. Amis was knighted in 1990.
