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The sickness
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The Resource The sickness
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The sickness
Statement of responsibility
Alberto Barrera Tyszka ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa ; [with an introduction by Chris Adrian]
Creator
  • trueBarrera, Alberto
Contributor
  • Costa, Margaret Jull
Subject
  • Fathers and sons -- Fiction
  • truePhysicians
  • Physicians -- Fiction
  • trueStalkers
  • Stalkers -- Fiction
  • trueStalking
  • Cancer -- Patients | Family relationships -- Fiction
  • FICTION / Literary
  • trueFamily relationships
  • trueFathers and sons
  • trueHypochondria
  • Hypochondria -- Fiction
  • truePeople with cancer
  • truePeople with cancer -- Family relationships
Genre
  • Fiction
Language
  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
Summary
"Dr. Miranda is coming to terms with a tragedy: his father has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and has only a few weeks to live. And yet the doctor--the son--finds it impossible to tell him. Ernesto Duran is convinced he is sick. Ever since he separated from his wife he has been presenting symptoms of an illness he believes is killing him. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr. Miranda gives up responding to his letters and e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him. The fixation has its own creeping effect on Miranda's secretary, who cannot, despite her best intentions, resist becoming involved. The nature of sickness as experienced by two individuals--one a doctor who is no stranger to death, the other a man sick with anxiety and torment--provides the backbone to this tender, thoughtful and refined novel. The Sickness is profound and philosophical, and yet written with an agility that expresses the tragedy, but also the comedy of life itself"--
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  • Enfermedad
Storyline
  • trueCharacter-driven
Tone
  • trueReflective
  • trueThought-provoking
  • trueMelancholy
Writing style
  • trueSpare
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Provided by publisher
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
863/.64
Index
no index present
LC call number
PQ8550.12.A62
LC item number
A2 2012
Literary form
novels

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  • The sickness, Alberto Barrera Tyszka ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa ; [with an introduction by Chris Adrian]

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