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The Diagnosis

Alan Lightman

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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. All he remembers is the motto of his company: The maximum information in the minimum time. When Bill's memory returns, his head pounding, remembering too much, a strange numbness afflicts him, beginning as a tingling in his hands and gradually spreading over the rest of his body. 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.

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Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
ISBN-13
9780375725500
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Illness and identityCorporate life and technologyAlienation

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