THE DIAGNOSIS
New York: Pantheon Books, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, red quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over red boards, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with inset of Jacque Louis David's "Death of Socrates," [vi] + 369 pages = [2] Acknowledgements + [2] About the Author. Very Fine / Very Fine. Item #3117
ISBN: 0679436154
Alan Lightman (b.1948) is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He has served on the faculties of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT.
He is widely known as the author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams. Lightman's novel THE DIAGNOSIS was a finalist for the National Book Award.--Wikipedia
"I know of no novel that capturews the technological horror and pervasive spiritual poverty of our wildly properous land in so powerful a way as The Diagnosis. It is haunting."--Norman Mailer
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