Jake's Thing (Vintage Blue)

by Kingsley Amis

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Jake Richardson, an Oxford don nearing sixty with a lifetime's lechery behind him, is in pursuit of his lost libido and heads of to the consulting room of a miniature sex therapist. Not one to disobey a doctor's orders, he runs the full humiliating gamut of sex labs and trendy 'workshops', where more than souls are bared. He decks himself with cunning gadgetry, dreams up a weekly fantasy, pets diligently with his overweight wife and browses listlessly through porn magazines behind locked doors. Is sex really worth it? As liberationists abuse him, a campus hostess bores him into bed - and even his own wife starts acting oddly - Jake seriously begins to wonder.
  • ISBN10 0099468352
  • ISBN13 9780099468356
  • Publish Date 5 August 2004 (first published 18 September 1978)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 19 February 2008
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Vintage
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
  • Pages 285
  • Language English