A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst.
As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he embarks - via Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity and memories of his 1950s South London boyhood - on a picaresque quest for his lost contentment.
| ISBN: | 9780099554196 |
| Publication date: | 7th April 2011 |
| Author: | David Lodge |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |