num_pages: 369
description: Businessman Bill Chalmers descends into a nightmare as he pursues a diagnosis for the strange illness--involving a bizarre memory loss and a strange numbness that gradually affects his entire body--that has affected him. By the author of Einstein's Dreams. 50,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The Diagnosis
titlecomplete: The Diagnosis
genres: Fiction, American, Illness, Book Club, Literature, Adult, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Unfinished
ratings_count: 1087
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Massachusetts Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Pantheon Books