Therapy
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9780099554196
A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst.
As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession...
A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst.
As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he embarks - via Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity and memories of his 1950s South London boyhood - on a picaresque quest for his lost contentment.
Review: Full of delights... His view of our neuroses is sane, intelligent and amused -- John Mortimer * Sunday Times *
Energetic, comic...a highly ingenious games-board of moves and counter-moves * Sunday Telegraph *
Lodge remains one of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era; and Therapy is good for you * Time Out *
Takes off on wings of humour and pathos which would not have disgraced Lodge's great hero Dickens... A splendid novel * Daily Express *
A real treat...a joy - a sobering joy, but a joy none the less * Observer *
Author Biography:
David Lodge (CBE)'s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages.
| Autor | Lodge, David |
|---|---|
| Ilmumisaeg | 2011 |
| Kirjastus | Vintage Publishing |
| Köide | Pehmekaaneline |
| Bestseller | Ei |
| Lehekülgede arv | 336 |
| Pikkus | 198 |
| Laius | 130 |
| Keel | English |
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