{"product_id":"jakes-thing","title":"Jake's Thing","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: Hutchinson of London, 1978. First UK Edition (true first). Small quarto in yellow illus jacket; 284 pages; 23 cm Near fine with extremely slight roll and small faint stain tocopyright page; in a near fine jacket (not price-clipped), now in archival mylar. Bookseller stamp of Shakespeare \u0026amp; Co (Paris) to title page. . Hardcover. ISBN: 9780091343903, 0091343909\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" –Publisher.  Contents: This is it. The farting ploughboy. Domestic interior. Thunderball. Business-head and Carter-face. Focusing session. Are you disturbed?. Informal basis. Guilt and shame. Wanker!. Academic study. I have heard of your paintings too. Can I take you out to dinner?. Sexual act. At Mr Shyster's. At Mr Shyster's (continued). Exposing Ed. Eve's thing. That lazy feeling. Girls everywhere. I can help you. Phallus's end. Extreme bourgeois puritan conventionality. Something I want to show you. Increased insight. What, and miss television?. Smudger turns up trumps. Physical after all. Notes: Novel. \/\/ Association copy with  stamp of Shakespeare \u0026amp; Co (Paris) to title page. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Amis, Kingsley; Blake, Quentin (jacket illus.)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46210820440322,"sku":"104426","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4412\/1602\/files\/104426.jpg?v=1749673016","url":"https:\/\/bibliope.com\/products\/jakes-thing","provider":"Bibliope","version":"1.0","type":"link"}