{"product_id":"book-awu4","title":"The Diagnosis","description":"Alan Lightman's first novel, \u003cb\u003eEinstein's Dreams\u003c\/b\u003e, was greeted with international praise. Salman Rushdie called it \"at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written.\" Michiko Kakutani wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e that the novel creates \"a magical, metaphysical realm … as in Calvino's work, the fantastical elements of the stories are grounded in precise, crystalline prose.\" With \u003cb\u003eThe Diagnosis\u003c\/b\u003e, Lightman gives us his most ambitious and penetrating novel yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile rushing to his office one warm summer morning, Bill Chalmers, a junior executive, realizes 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 time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns satiric, comic, and tragic, \u003cb\u003eThe Diagnosis\u003c\/b\u003e is a brilliant and disturbing examination of our modern obsession with speed, information, and money, and what this obsession has done to our minds and our spirits.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49341423255856,"sku":"BDawu4","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/awu4-Square-cover.jpg?v=1778204932","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-awu4","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}