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"Fine, sly, rich comedy. . . "―The New York Times Book Review
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."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) is the author of many works, including A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, Honey for the Bears, The Long Day Wanes, The Doctor Is Sick, and ReJoyce.
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Fine, sly, rich comedy. -- New York Times Book Review
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- PublisherWILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD
- Publication date1968
- ISBN 10 0434098108
- ISBN 13 9780434098101
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages268
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The Doctor is Sick
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WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD, London
(1972)
ISBN 10: 0434098108
ISBN 13: 9780434098101
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