num_pages: 260
description: "Fine, sly, rich comedy." ― New York Times Book Review 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.
language: English
title: The Doctor is Sick
titlecomplete: The Doctor is Sick
genres: 20th Century, Modern, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Humor, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 1383
publisher: W.W. Norton  Company