Jake Richardson, an Oxford don nearing sixty with a lifetime's lechery behind him, is in pursuit of his lost libido and 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. He 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.
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Imprint: Vintage Digital
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Published: 31/03/2012
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ISBN: 9781446419786
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Length: 288 Pages
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RRP: £12.99
Reviews
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Amis amazes at every turn
Mail on Sunday
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A great storyteller, although he was much more than a storyteller
Keith Waterhouse
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He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse-He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist
John Mortimer
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In these explicit days, Mr Amis is the laureate of the unsayable, the literary it man
Sunday Telegraph
