Therapy [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Lodge is a witty storyteller with an unerring instinct for the absurd, whether he's poking fun at academic life or mocking the excesses of tourism, as he did in his last novel, Paradise News (1992). Here he takes on the self-important but quite silly world of British television. His hero, Tubby Passmore, is a wildly successful sitcom screenwriter with a passion for Kierkegaard. Well into his fifties and quite wealthy, he knows he should be happy with his athletic university professor wife, his big country house and London apartment, his popular series, and his platonic girlfriend, but instead he's suffering from free-floating angst and a host of nagging yet elusive ailments. All this has turned him into a therapy addict, and he sneaks off to his psychoanalyst, acupuncturist, physical therapist, and orthopedic surgeon as though they were secret lovers, but none bring relief. Only writing helps, and Tubby's droll accounts of his hilarious misadventures are rich amalgams of innocence and irony. With this larky novel, Lodge has proved once again that fiction can have a strong moral center and still be utterly charming. Donna Seaman -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

Well known for his academic satires (e.g., Changing Places), Lodge here crafts the story of a successful sitcom writer who has everything but what he wants the most: peace of mind. Viking will be redesigning Lodge's backlist titles in a renewed promotion of his books.
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From the author of }Changing Places, The Picturegoers{ and }The British Museum is Falling Down{. Laurence Passmore appears to have it easy - a successful TV sitcom, an exclusive home, a state-of-the-art car and a vigorous sex life with his wife of thirty years. But it is contentment that he is missing and in his search for it he develops an obsession with Kierkegaard, has several brushes with the law, becomes a gossip-column notoriety and stays in many strange beds in Rummidge, Tenerife, Beverley Hills, Copenhagen and Galicia. As his life unravels he desperately tries to keep everything together. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .