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Difficulties W/Girls

Kingsley Amis

2013 · Penguin Books, Limited

FictionMan-woman relationshipsMarried peopleMarriageEngland, fiction

About this book

Thirty-seven-year-old Patrick Standish is unusually susceptible to temptation with other women, though his wife Jenny does not deserve the insult of his sporting ways.

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Quiet, observational, and lightly philosophical — the prose is the point. Best for readers who already enjoy literary fiction and aren't reading for plot. Frustrates anyone expecting clear stakes.

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A character-driven with strong prose, melancholic and immersive read.

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