Everything you need to understand or teach Double Blind by Edward St. Aubyn.
In Double Blind, Edward St. Aubyn portrays a vast range of unusual characters. The novel, set in England, France, and California, centers on an ecologist, his new lover, and his lover’s best friend. Over the course of a year, the friends become involved with psychoanalysts, a cocky American businessman, and a naive Franciscan priest, among many others. In this dense and multifaceted narrative, St. Aubyn explores themes of free will and determinism, of religion and capitalism, and of all the ways in which humanity interacts with the natural world.