Jake's Thing

Name: Jake's Thing
Author: Kingsley Amis

by Kingsley Amis

Comic novel centered on an aging man's sexual anxieties and marital discontentment

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Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis was a British novelist whose debut Lucky Jim remains one of the funniest novels in the English language. His comic novels of provincial English life established the template for decades of campus fiction and satirical writing.

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