The Doctor Is Sick (30 page)
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Authors: Anthony Burgess
On his way to the thoroughfare Edwin met many cats but only one man. This was 'Ippo advertising, front and rear, JOE'S ALL-NIGHT SAUSAGES. âYou got your watch back, then,' said 'Ippo, recognising Edwin with no surprise. âRight bleedin' job this is. Workin' nights now, see. The end, that's what it is, the end.'
Hove, Sussex
, 1959.
“In his previous novels... Anthony Burgess has cocked a critical eye at the frivolities of contemporary man and shown a deep concern with the problem of human dignity in an ever more computerized world. This novel... reveals the same satiric and metaphysical bent, plus a talent for comic inventiveness that places him in a class with Wodehouse, the early Anthony Powell and even Evelyn Waugh at his best.”
âJ. B. Lindroth,
America
“The author turns to excellent account his linguistic skill.... The [hospital] ward is peopled with brain cases who happily exemplify varieties of English speech, which Burgess registers with marvelous and hilarious accuracy.”
âSaul Maloff,
New York Times Book Review
Novels by Anthony Burgess
THE RIGHT TO AN ANSWER
DEVIL OF A STATE
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
THE WANTING SEED
HONEY FOR THE BEARS
NOTHING LIKE THE SUN
THE LONG DAY WANES
A VISION OF BATTLEMENTS
THE DOCTOR IS SICK
Nonfiction
RE JOYCE
ANTHONY BURGESS is the author of
A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed, Honey for the Bears, The Long Day Wanes, Nothing Like the Sun
, and
Re Joyce
, all available from Norton. Burgess died in 1993.
Copyright © 1960 by Anthony Burgess
First published as a Norton
paperback 1979; reissued 1997
All rights reserved.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Burgess, Anthony, 1917-
The doctor is sick.
I. Title.
PZ4.B953Do   1979 [PR6052.U638] 823'.9'14   79-21327
ISBN 978-0-393-31602-5 pbk.
ISBN 978-0-393-35253-5 (e-book)
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