{"first_publish_date": "2000", "title": "The diagnosis", "covers": [418167], "lc_classifications": ["PS3562.I45397 D5 2000"], "key": "/works/OL2937534W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL447892A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Executives", "Fiction", "Psychological fiction", "Memory disorders", "Fiction, psychological", "Fictional Works [Publication Type]"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"While 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.\".\n\n\"When 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.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 15, "revision": 15, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T01:08:37.956213"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-05-03T12:14:36.532855"}}