Jake's Thing
- author
- Kingsley Amis
- Narrator
- Keith Allen
- Length
- 9 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Catalogue #
- 18878
- Categories
- 20th Century Classics
- Ratings
- 0 star rating
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.