Therapy, 9780099554196
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Sitcom writer’s mid-life crisis: can therapy cure his lost contentment?

Therapy

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    30 June 2011

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Summary

Therapy: A Novel of Midlife Angst and Sitcom Success

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, nor 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 Kierkeg…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099554196
ISBN-10:0099554194
Series:Vintage Books
Author:David Lodge
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:30 June 2011
Weight:233g
Dimensions:197mm x 131mm x 20mm
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Critics Review

Full of delights… His view of our neuroses is sane, intelligent and amused

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 *

About The Author

David Lodge

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. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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