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Summary: Therapy, anyone?
Review: what i loved about this book was that david lodge took a character that was worthy of contempt and made me sympathize with him...the story is a first person journal told by Laurence " Tubby " Passmore, with other dialogues from friends and and ex-wife. while tubby seems to have it all: a great job, a nice home, fancy car, a big bank account, and a loving wife, he feels empty; and then it all comes apart : his wife leaves him, telling him, she couldn't stand him, his job as a scriptwriter for a sitcom is catapulted into a state of flux and and he starts to doubt his sexual worth...so what does he do? dabbles in exstitentialism...without giving away the rest of the story, the book can serve as an introduction to kierkegaarde for the layman. tubby uses kierkegaarde-ian philosophy and applies it to his life, using it as his moral compass, to guide himself through his turmoil.... several twists happen: tubby befriends a homeless man named grahame, who sleeps on the porch of his london flat, and he goes in search of a lost love. this book tells about therapy in its many forms: writing,telling your soul to someone, or taking a journey to " find yourself " lodge takes a heady subject like exstitentialism and makes it souffle-light and easy to digest...
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