The Doctor Is Sick - by Anthony Burgess (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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 swoop down on him as he careens through an adventurous night in London. "Fine, sly, rich comedy. . . ". (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) by the author of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><em>The Doctor is Sick</em> places [Burgess] in a class with Wodehouse, the early Anthony Powell, and even Evelyn Waugh at his best.--J. B. Lindroth "America"<br><br>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"<br>
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