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Dr. Edwin Spindrift has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than to people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condition. When he escapes from the hospital the night before his surgery, things and people he hardly knew existed outside of his dictionaries swoop down on him as he careens through adventures in nighttime London."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good+. Reprint; First Printing. Light reading and cover creasing, light shelf and edge wear, sunned spine, paper edge toned. Some foxing to inside covers, endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First UK paperback edition, first printing 1972. Good reading copy. Cover illustration by Peter Bentley. ; 240 pages; By the author of The Clockwork Orange. Sheila is having too many affairs, Edwin is absorbed in his work. But when Edwin loses all desire for his wife due to a fall and requires a brain operation, the delicate equilibrium of their lives is turned upside down. Mass Market PB. Seller Inventory # 30222
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