# Jake's Thing

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- Book: [Jake's Thing](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis/jakes-thing) ([Jake's Thing.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis/jakes-thing.md))
- Authors: [Kingsley Amis](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 9 h 29 min
- Narrated by: Keith Allen
- ISBN: 978-14-7357-919-4
- Published: 2020-12-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 9 h 29 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. 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. © Kingsley Amis 1978 (P) Penguin Audio 2020