Therapy
(DAVID LODGE)
Fifty-eight year old Laurence Passmore is the script-writer
for a popular television sitcom; he has plenty of money, a long-lasting
marriage with successful adult children, and a platonic mistress. An internal
derangement of the knee seems like his only real problem ? but a mid-life
crisis has struck and he is discovering Angst. His familiar doses of cognitive
therapy, aromatherapy, and acupuncture offer no help, but he becomes obsessed
with Kierkegaard. And then real problems arrive ? his wife leaves him,
impotence strikes, and he risks being replaced as script-writer for the sitcom.
His crisis becomes a desperate hunt for sex, taking him to Tenerife and America and
eventually back to his first girlfriend and the pilgrimage to Compostela.
therapy has a pleasing unity, taking the form of Passmore''s journal
and other writings. The consistently maintained perspective of a comedy writer
gives it a light tone and comic surface, but that never obscures the underlying
seriousness. Lodge even manages to fit in an introduction to Kierkegaard''s either/or
? hardly a comic staple! ? And the result is certainly a far cry from the
near-slapstick Small World. Therapy is moving and pathetic as
well as clever and amusing.
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