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...DOCTOR IS SICK, by Anthony Burgess. In this novel about a philologist hospitalized with a brain injury, British Humorist Burgess explores the real meaning lurking behind mere words...
...DOCTOR IS SICK, by Anthony Burgess. Burgess' late-blooming agility as a humorist is evident in this 1960 novel, just now reaching the U.S. in the wake of his growing reputation...
...DOCTOR IS SICK, by Anthony Burgess. Burgess' late-blooming agility as a humorist is evident in this 1960 novel, just now reaching the U.S. in the wake of his growing reputation...
...DOCTOR IS SICK, by Anthony Burgess. A rogue philosopher whose comic novels also bite, Burgess conducts a tour along the perimeters of reality...
...begins the long, long slide into ready-to-wear. In Europe, she picks up a fur-trimmed coat and a concert pianist. Her hair loses its luster, her complexion fades to the color of driftwood, and ultimately she lands in Mexico wearing a filthy flowered wrapper and carousing with Burgess Meredith, a blackmailer. After she shoots him for threatening to reveal her identity and spoil the Governor's bid for the White House, she plays her big courtroom scene, helped along by her son (Keir Dullea), now a clear-eyed young defense attorney. He never really knows the truth...