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1978 satirical novel written by Kingsley Amis From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jake's Thing is a satirical novel written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1978 by Hutchinson
The novel follows the life of Jacques 'Jake' Richardson, a 59-year-old Oxford don who struggles to overcome the loss of his libido.
In the magazine Prospect, critic Andrew Marr discussed his expectation that Amis' work would be retrospectively beyond the pale. "What slightly spoils this diatribe, however, is that to prepare for it I went back to Kingsley Amis’s novels and enjoyed myself more than was convenient for my purposes. Jake’s Thing, for instance, famously rancid with misogyny, turns out, on re-reading, to be surprisingly tender in parts, and intensely moving on the humiliations of impotence. The Old Devils will last as long as novels do; but it is not the only brilliant treatment of old age-Ending Up is one of the most delicately tragic funny books I have ever read. And so on."[1]
Writing in The Millions, critic Catherine Baab-Muguira acknowledged the novel's "comic brio."[2]
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