From the internationally bestselling author of Love's Executioner and When Nietzsche Wept
comes a novel of group therapy with a cast of memorably wounded characters struggling to heal
pain and change lives Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup
eminent psychotherapist Julius Hertzfeld is forced to reexamine his life and work -- and seeks
out Philip Slate a sex addict whom he failed to help some twenty years earlier. Yet Philip
claims to be cured -- miraculously transformed by the pessimistic teachings of German
philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer -- and is himself a philosophical counselor in training.
Philip's dour misanthropic stance compels Julius to invite Philip to join his intensive
therapy group in exchange for tutoring on Schopenhauer. But with mere months left life may be
far too short to help Philip or to compete with him for the hearts and minds of the group
members. And then again it might be just long enough.
