David Lodge - Therapy
OverzichtConditie | redelijk [kaft in werkelijkheid wat lichter dan op bijgaande afbeelding] |
Aantal pagina`s | 321 |
Uitgavejaar | 1996 |
Uitgegeven door | Penguin Books |
Kaft | paperback [pocket] |
ISBN | 9780140254648 |
Code [intern] | DIJK |
Beschrijving boek
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 ...