The Diagnosis
by Alan Lightman
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good (ex-library)/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679436154
- ISBN 13
- 9780679436157
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Pantheon Books, New York, 2000. Hardcover. Good (ex-library)/Good. Hardcover. 369 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Pantheon Books, New York, 2000. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good (ex-library) condition and comes in good dust jacket. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust jacket protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Deckled edges (rough cut). Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers.. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Alan Lightman's first novel, Einstein's Dreams, was greeted with international praise. Salman Rushdie called it "at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written." Michiko Kakutani wrote in "The New York Times" that the novel creates "a magical, metaphysical realm . . . as in Calvino's work, the fantastical elements of the stories are grounded in precise, crystalline prose." With The Diagnosis, Lightman gives us his most ambitious and penetrating novel yet. While rushing to his office one warm summer morning, Bill Chalmers, a junior executive, realizes that he cannot remember where he is going or even who he is. All he remembers is the motto of his company: The maximum information in the minimum time. When Bill's memory returns, "his head pounding, remembering too much," a strange numbness afflicts him, beginning as a tingling in his hands and gradually spreading over the rest of his body. As he attempts to find a diagnosis of his illness, he descends into a nightmare, enduring a blizzard of medical tests and specialists without conclusive results, the manic frenzy of his company, and a desperate wife who decides that he must be imagining his deteriorating condition. By turns satiric, comic, and tragic, The Diagnosis is a brilliant and disturbing examination of our modern obsession with speed, information, and money, and what this obsession has done to our minds and our spirits. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; ISBN: 0679436154. ISBN/EAN: 9780679436157. Inventory No: 12082283.. 9780679436157
Synopsis
Alan Lightman lives in Boston.
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Details
- Seller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 12082283
- Title
- The Diagnosis
- Author
- Alan Lightman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (ex-library)
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0679436154
- ISBN 13
- 9780679436157
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; The Diagnosis
- Bookseller catalogs
- General; Fiction;
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