Therapy - Brossura

Lodge, David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099554194 ISBN 13: 9780099554196

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2011

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"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)

Descrizione del libro:

A highly entertaining novel about a successful sitcom writer's search for his lost contentment.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0099554194
• ISBN 13: 9780099554196
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336