Therapy

by David Lodge (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.40

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $3.40

  A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marriage, 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, in an ingenious, hilarious and poignant novel of neuroses.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $14.69

  In his latest novel, the author of Nice Work extracts high and low comedy from the pain of a midlife crisis. The writer of a successful TV sitcom seems to have it all. But his money cannot buy contentment, and his quest for it will lead him into an obsession with Kierkegaard, a brush with the police, gossip-column notoriety, and strange beds and bedrooms worldwide.