{"product_id":"jakes-thing-by-kingsley-amis-9780099512172","title":"Jake's Thing","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA powerful read brought back to life; surprising, honest and witty at every turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJake's Thing\u003c\/em\u003e centres on Jake Richardson, an Oxford don nearing sixty with a lifetime's lechery behind him, in pursuit of his lost libido. He heads off 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47403749310700,"sku":"9780099512172","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/61V-6PVsowL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773865327","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/jakes-thing-by-kingsley-amis-9780099512172","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}