Anthony Burgess

The Doctor Is Sick (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"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 decidesshaven-headed, shirtless, and pennilessto 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393352535
• Artikelnr.: 59592127

Autorenporträt

Anthony Burgess (19171993) is the author of many works, including The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, and Re Joyce. A Clockwork Orange is one of the "100 best novels" of both Time magazine and Modern Library and is on David Bowie's Book List.

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