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The Doctor Is Sick
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The Doctor Is Sick

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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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Country
United States
Date
17 September 1997
Pages
270
ISBN
9780393316025

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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Country
United States
Date
17 September 1997
Pages
270
ISBN
9780393316025