Therapy (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Lodge
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: London and Rummidge, a fictional city in the Midlands
- Principal Characters: Laurence “Tubby” Passmore, Sally Passmore, Amy, Maureen Kavanagh Harrington, Bede Harrington, Louise, Samantha
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Divorce, Existentialism, Intermarriage, Middle age, Psychotherapy or psychotherapists, Insomnia
- Locales: London, England, Midlands, England, Rummidge, England
The protagonist and narrator of Therapy, Laurence Passmore or “Tubby,” as he is known to his friends, would seem an unlikely candidate for an attack of late-middle-age angst. In fact, Tubby did not know the meaning of the word (literally; he had to look it up in a dictionary). At age fifty-eight, he is balding and a little overweight, but to all outward appearances he has achieved a successful life. He has been happily married for thirty years to his wife Sally, who stays youthful and trim; he has a lucrative job that he loves as writer of a British television situation...
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