SOURCE: “Tubby, Redeemed,” in Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 23, 1995, pp. 1, 9.

In the following review, Smiley offers a favorable assessment of Therapy.

There are few writers whose roster of novels I’ve read in its entirety, but David Lodge is one of them. I began with his hilarious academic satire, Small World, and, mostly because that book gave me a laugh or two on every page, I sought out all the others, from the almost as well-known Changing Places (two university professors, one from a rainy British red-brick university ever falling on hard times, the other from Berkeley, which Lodge calls Euphoria U., exchange jobs and much else), to the quite obscure Out of the Shelter (young man escapes the narrowness and deprivation of postwar London). Like any other novelist, Lodge has his themes and his tricks—he often explores the redemptive effects of sex and travel, and...