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This is the fifth novel from the pen of Australia's best-selling social analyst. Set in a typical contemporary suburb, WAYS OF ESCAPE is the first-person story of Tom, a clinical psychologist who's losing patience with his affluent, perfection-seeking clients.Divorced and struggling with professional burnout, he's open to the possibility of radical change. He allows himself to become reckless with a client intent on seducing him, leading to a charge of professional misconduct and the humiliating prospect of deregistration. He is caught up in the disappearance of a neighbour who had recently left his wife and children. and a lighthearted distraction comes in the form of an offer to write for a motoring magazine an experience Tom finds liberating.Two streams of Tom's life then intersect when he agrees to advise one of the candidates for election as chancellor at a boutique university. Three people are contesting the election: a corporate lawyer who has recently crossed swords with a relative of Tom's, the charismatic proprietor of a chain of real estate agencies, and an eminence grise on the academic staff. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I empathised a lot with Tom, the protagonist of the story, a ‘jaded’ counsellor who finds that the sorts of behaviours that he has developed in his professional life are having detrimental effects in his private life. This doesn’t necessarily mean that I liked him or respected all the choices that he made in his life, but I found him a well-developed character whose story made me think. And Tom was a particularly interesting narrator, because one of the most interesting things about his character was the gap between the things he’s thinking and feeling and the things he’s saying and doing.
The ‘mystery’ at the heart of the story wasn’t necessarily of interest to me, except as it pondered the book’s fundamental premise – that of ‘escape’. We’ve all dreamed of ‘escaping’ our lives (our jobs, our relationships, and may even our own selves) when things get too much for us, but this book posed questions about the different ways in which we might express these dreams in our own lives – through fantasies, harmless or not, hobbies, therapy, time out, self-sabotage, self-deception, 'escaping' into our professional roles, and perhaps also through actual flight …
It was the exploration of these issues that I enjoyed the most in this book. ( )