by David Lodge · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140253580
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«Therapy» is David Lodge's literary fiction novel, published by Penguin Books in 1996, in paperback (336 pages, in English).
The novel follows Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore, a successful television comedy writer who, despite his money and stable marriage, finds himself in a midlife crisis marked by a knee pain that no therapy can relieve. Between physical therapy, aromatherapy, acupuncture, memories of his childhood in 1950s London and the ideas of Kierkegaard, Tubby embarks on a picaresque journey in search of the happiness he has lost. A satire on the contemporary obsession with health and well-being.
Novel winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the category of best book from Europe and South Asia in 1996.
Recommended for readers of contemporary English fiction with a sense of humor and fans of David Lodge's satirical narrative.
David John Lodge was an English novelist and critic. He was a literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, and some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988). The latter two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Another theme is Roman Catholicism, beginning from his first published novel The Picturegoers (1960).
