Diagnosis - Alan Lightman
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While rushing to work one warm summer morning, Bill Chalmers, a junior executive at a company in Boston, realizes that he cannot remember where he is going or even who he is. Surrounded by other commuters, busily at work with their laptops and dictaphones and columns of numbers, all Bill can remember is the motto of his The maximum information in the minimum time. When Bill's memory returns, a strange numbness afflicts him, beginning as a tingling in his hands and gradually spreading over the rest of his body. Over the following months, as he attempts to receive a diagnosis of his illness, he descends into a Kafkaesque nightmare, enduring a blizzard of medical tests and specialists without conclusive results, a desperate wife who decides that he must be imagining his deteriorating condition, and the manic frenzy of his company, where the executives rush to a health club each day at precisely 3.30 for twenty minutes of exercise and relaxation. Playing counterpoint to Bill's story is a gripping narrative about ...
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2001Uitgever: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0747556644ISBN-13: 9780747556640Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2001, paperback, age tanned, good copy [Auteur: Lightman, Alan] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Macmillan] [Jaar: 2001] [Titel: The Diagnosis]
