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.

About the Author
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) 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.

Reviews
"A cinematic British comedy in which Thurber-Man is pitted against London riff-raff, this doesn't give the full range of Burgess' Promethean verbal with but it is hilarious." -- Kirkus Reviews
"The Doctor is Sick places [Burgess] in a class with Wodehouse, the early Anthony Powell, and even Evelyn Waugh at his best." -- J. B. Lindroth - America



Book Information
ISBN 9780393316025
Author Anthony Burgess
Format Paperback
Page Count 270
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 338g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 18mm