Jake's Thing
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A sharp and satirical novel from one of Britain's most celebrated comic writers, Jake's Thing chronicles the misadventures of Jake Richardson, a middle-aged Oxford don who finds himself confronted with a loss of sexual desire and reluctantly subjected to the indignities of modern sex therapy. Amis wields his signature wit like a scalpel, dissecting the absurdities of 1970s therapeutic culture, academic life, and the battle of the sexes with gleeful, unapologetic precision. The novel presents Jake as a magnificently grumpy antihero whose curmudgeonly observations on women, marriage, and contemporary mores are as hilarious as they are politically incorrect. Beneath the comedy, Amis argues a darker, more unsettling case about male psychology and the irreversible passage of time, giving the narrative a bitter edge that lingers long after the laughter fades. Fans of acerbic British humor and incisive social commentary will find Jake's Thing to be one of Amis's most provocative and enduring works.
Author: Kingsley Amis
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, Hutchinson of Australia
Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A sharp and satirical novel from one of Britain's most celebrated comic writers, Jake's Thing chronicles the misadventures of Jake Richardson, a middle-aged Oxford don who finds himself confronted with a loss of sexual desire and reluctantly subjected to the indignities of modern sex therapy. Amis wields his signature wit like a scalpel, dissecting the absurdities of 1970s therapeutic culture, academic life, and the battle of the sexes with gleeful, unapologetic precision. The novel presents Jake as a magnificently grumpy antihero whose curmudgeonly observations on women, marriage, and contemporary mores are as hilarious as they are politically incorrect. Beneath the comedy, Amis argues a darker, more unsettling case about male psychology and the irreversible passage of time, giving the narrative a bitter edge that lingers long after the laughter fades. Fans of acerbic British humor and incisive social commentary will find Jake's Thing to be one of Amis's most provocative and enduring works.