International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2002

While rushing to his office one warm summer morning, Bill Chalmers, a junior executive, realises that he cannot remember where he is going or even who he is. All he remembers is the motto of his company: The maximum information in the minimum of time.
When Bill's memory returns, 'his head pounding, remembering too much,' a strange numbness afflicts him, beginning as a tingling in his hands and gradually spreading over the rest of his body. As he attempts to find a diagnosis of his illness, he descends into a nightmare, enduring a blizzard of medical tests and specialists without conclusive results, the manic frenzy of his company, and a desperate wife who decides that he must be imagining his deteriorating condition.
By turns satiric, comic, and tragic, The Diagnosis is an examination of our modern obsession with speed, information, and money, and what this obsession has done to our minds and spirits.

The Diagnosis	Nominated ISBN: 0679436154	Find out more about the author on the following websites: Includes brief author biography with links to interviews and a review of The Diagnosis Read an excerpt from The Diagnosis
by
Alan Lightman

Nominated by:
Richmond Public Library, Richmond, U.S.

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