Jake's Thing

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Hutchinson, 1978 - Fiction - 284 pages
In this hilarious, outrageous and wickedly funny story of Jake and his lost libido, Kingsley Amis does not pull any punches, but takes some well-aimed swipes at the crankier fringes of psychotherapy and at sex--1970s style.

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Contents

This Is It
9
The Farting Ploughboy
15
Domestic Interior
26
Copyright

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Jake's Thing
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Kingsley Amis
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About the author (1978)

Kingsley Amis is generally considered one of the "angry young men" of the 1950s. He was born in London in 1922 and educated at the City of London School. He received a degree in English language and literature from St. John's College, Oxford, in 1947. Until 1961 Amis lectured in English at University College, Swansea, and for the following two years at Cambridge. In 1947 Amis published his first collection of poems, Bright November. Frame of Mind followed in 1953 and Poems: Fantasy Portraits in 1954. His first novel, Lucky Jim (1954), established his reputation as a writer. He followed with That Uncertain Feeling (1956), and I Like It Here (1958). A longtime James Bond devotee, Amis wrote a James Bond adventure after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964. Amis's study of the famous spy was titled The James Bond Dossier (1965). Amis received the Booker Prize for the Old Devils (1986). Amis's later works include Memoirs (1990), and The King's English, a collection of essays on the craft of writing well. Amis was knighted in 1990. He died in 1995.

Bibliographic information

TitleJake's Thing
AuthorKingsley Amis
Edition3
PublisherHutchinson, 1978
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 4, 2008
ISBN0091343909, 9780091343903
Length284 pages
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Fiction / Psychological
  
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