Jake’s Thing by Kingsley Amis – the author is my favorite, along with Marcel Proust https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/albertine-disparue-by-marcel-proust.html ergo I loved this chef d’oeuvre, magnum opus for me that is
Jake’s Thing by Kingsley Amis – the author is my favorite, along with Marcel Proust https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/albertine-disparue-by-marcel-proust.html ergo I loved this chef d’oeuvre, magnum opus for me that is 10 out of 10 I am in the process of reading the Kingsley Amis magnum opera for the second time, I just realized that Jake’s Thing will come on ‘my desk again, because there should be a third time…here is my previous review https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/jakes-thing-by-kingsley-amis-10-out-of.html of the novel It is said to be ‘a fictionalized account of Amis’s affair with the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard’, but I must say that I identify with the main character, just like I do in the other novels by this Magister Ludi, Master of The Game, even if there are differences, in some ways I may be better, while Jacques 'Jake' Richardson is clearly ahead in some areas He is a 59-year-old Oxford don who is going t...