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      The Doctor Is Sick

      by Anthony Burgess
      Published
      Aug 1997
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      "Fine, sly, rich comedy." —New York Times Book Review

      Dr. Edwin Spindrift, a very ordinary lecturer in linguistics, has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condition. The night before he is to be operated on, Spindrift decides—shaven-headed, shirtless, and penniless—to postpone the surgery by escaping from the hospital. Things and people he hardly knew existed outside of his dictionaries swoop down on him as he careens through adventures in nighttime London.

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      First Edition Aug 1997 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393316025
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