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Therapy
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780670863587
ISBN: 0670863580
Label: Viking Adult
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: July 01, 1995
Publisher: Viking Adult
Studio: Viking Adult
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Editorial Review:
Faced with a mid-life crisis, a successful, overweight television writer embarks on a quest for the answer to his spiritual anxiety and encounters therapists, the police, Soren Kierkegaard, and strange new bedfellows. By the author of Small World.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - A handbook for middle age crisis
This book gives a humorous view to the middle life crisis. No issue of it is forgotten, lack of self esteem, adultery, physical decay, depression, compassion and so on. Michelines Passmore lives through all these experiences starting with a knee pain that heralds a process of realizing that the golden age was over. His relationship with women is wonderfully depicted. Abandoned by his wife, he suspected that her lover was her tenis trainer only to realize in an embarrassing situation that he was not ... Read More
Rating: - Standard Lodge
Standard Lodge: insight, humour, alternative forms, incorporated lecture (Keirkegaard), and an adulterous resolution.
Lodge is consistent. His style reminds me a bit of Hornby (maybe I've got that backwards), the honesty I suppose. I relate particularly to his persona's reminiscences about his first girlfriend - how blithely horrible you can be. I don't think he needed to tie things up with a common technique of his (sex: cf. Out of the Shelter; Nice Work, Paradise News): it seems to be important ... Read More
Rating: - Dry, dark humor-- well written
David Lodge is an extremely good writer, and his book is a joy to read. The British colloquialism make this story diffrent from the usualAmerican viewpoint. His jabs at the British medical system, rail system, etc are priceless. One note: the use of a "private consultant" physician led to unnecessary surgery, which perhaps is a backhanded compliment to the socialist "tincture of time" approach after-all.
A good read by a good author.
Rating:  - Choosing oneself
This is an excellent novel by a master of the comic serious, David Lodge. The story is covered in the back cover and other reviews, but I would add that the meaning of this novel and its structure are among the most innovative and genuinely engaging I have seen. Many postmodern novels, a term at which no doubt David Lodge would wince, are structured to allow the reader to impose his own understanding of the facts through intricate structures; but rarely are they deeply engaging. The average comic novel, ... Read More
Rating: - Satire and sensitivity in a happy marriage
But the only happy marriage in this novel is the one between satire and sensitivity. I had expected comedy and satire throughout, but, though Lodge gives us a good dose of it, the book turns poignant and touching. I think I was in love with Maureen by the conclusion. I read the book initially with reluctance because it had been, as I viewed it, foisted off on me by a book club. I ended thoroughly caught up and engrossed, even shaken at times. I am in that book. He did he know me?
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