THE DIAGNOSIS. by Lightman, Alan - (2000)

New York:: Pantheon,, (2000). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's fourth book, a Kafkaesque horror story. "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. . . 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." SIGNED on the title page. 369 pp.