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Doctor is Sick
Dr. Edwin Spindrift has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than to people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condition. When he escapes from the hospital the night before his surgery, things and people he hardly knew existed outside of his dictionaries swoop down on him as he careens through adventures in nighttime London.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Aug 1st, 1997
- Pages: 270
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.16in - 5.06in - 0.72in - 0.53lb
- EAN: 9780393316025
- Categories: • Literary• Humorous - General
About the Author
Burgess, Anthony: - Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, and Re Joyce. A Clockwork Orange is one of the "100 best novels" of both Time magazine and Modern Library and is on David Bowie's Book List.
Praise for this book
A cinematic British comedy in which Thurber-Man is pitted against London riff-raff, this doesn't give the full range of Burgess' Promethean verbal with but it is hilarious.-- "Kirkus Reviews"
The Doctor is Sick places [Burgess] in a class with Wodehouse, the early Anthony Powell, and even Evelyn Waugh at his best.--J. B. Lindroth "America"