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The Diagnosis (Paperback)

By: Alan Lightman (Author)

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"...THE DIAGNOSIS is a powerful critique of a barbarously accelerated society. Lightman's understated style (even allowing for a certain rouged quality in the Greek passages...) gives the book gravity and lucidity, and creates an unexpectedly haunting effect."

"[Lightman] reveals himself to be a highly original and imaginative thinker. We realize with some alarm that Chalmers's world is not that far removed from our own...."

"...I often had the sense that I was watching a movie rather than reading a novel. The flatness of the characters and the frenzied, scripted quality of their lives have a cinematic rather than literary texture."

Publisher's note

The acclaimed, bestselling of author Einstein's Dreams presents another startling meditation on science and life–the harrowing tale of one man's struggle to cope in a wired world as his own biological wiring short-circuits.

As Bill Chalmers shuttles to work, an extraordinary thing happens. Suddenly, he can't remember who he is or where he works. All he can recall is the corporate motto: the maximum information in the minimum time. Bill’s memory returns, but a pronounced numbness encroaches his body. He grows increasingly isolated at work, his doctors are unable to diagnose his condition, and his wife and son are more interested in technology than they are in him. The result is a startling arraignment of a world driven by speed, information, and the bottom line.

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Bill Chalmers, a Boston executive on his way to work, abruptly loses his memory and has no idea who he is or what he's supposed to be doing. As his memory returns (after a series of daunting experiences) he begins to have other symptoms, including the loss of all his bodily functions. He deteriorates further and further, and by novel's end he has withdrawn completely into himself. This bleak novel, with its harrowing plot and disaffected hero, is an exploration of the increasingly off-balance position of humanity in the 21st century. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.

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