Therapy - Couverture rigide

Lodge, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0786205563 ISBN 13 : 9780786205561

Editeur : St Martin's Press, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Lodge David

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

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.

'Lodge remains on 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

'Energetic, comic...a highly ingenious games-board of moves and counter-moves' Sunday Telegraph

Présentation de l'éditeur :

By all appearances, Laurence Passmore is sitting pretty. True, he is almost bald and his nickname in "Tubby", but the TV sitcom he writes keeps the money coming in, he has an exclusive house in Rummridge, a state-of-the-art car, a vigorous sex life with his wife of thirty years, and a platonic mistress to talk shop with. What money can't buy, and his many therapists can't deliver, is contentment. It's not the trouble behind the scenes of his TV show that's bugging him or even the persistent pain in his knee; it's this deeper, nameless unease. Is it a spiritual crisis or just one of the midlife variety?

Tubby's quest for the source of it will lead into an obsession with Kierkegaard, brushes with the police, gossip-column notoriety, and strange beds and bedrooms worldwide.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: St Martin's Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0786205563
• ISBN 13: 9780786205561
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 569