Therapy - Hardcover

Lodge, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786205563 ISBN 13: 9780786205561

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1996

Synopsis

Casper Kaplan is a psychologist with personal problems and difficult clients, including Julian, an obsessive epileptic, and Maureen, a professor who taunts Casper with dragon lady attire and lewd remarks and instigates an affair with Julian that is ultimately life-threatening

About this title

About the Author:

David Lodge is the author of twelve novels and a novella, including the Booker Prize finalists Small World and Nice Work. He is also the author of many works of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction and Consciousness and the Novel.

From AudioFile:

Lawrence Passmore is a writer whose TV sitcom has become a popular success in England. He is married, a father, lives in a grand house in a swank suburb, and he seeks every flavor of therapy from aroma to massage to psycho. Stephen Thorne's sustained intensity makes the written situations, which are already funny, into hilarious moments. He never takes a stab at trying to be funny--nor does he wait after delivery for the listener to "get it." The story runs on like life--without an announcement of what is funny or not. Little rises of inflection add to the humor of his matter-of-fact way of reading. The protagonist is recognizably human as he runs from aromatherapy to acupuncture with the need to find the cure for his ills. Reading the book was a delight, and hearing it doubled the pleasure. J.P. An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award Winner. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0786205563
• ISBN 13: 9780786205561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 569