Good thing I checked, I didn't realize I just read a Lippman book last month! Don't want to duplicate an author's listings.
An author falls down the stairs in his home and is laid up for quite a while. This book was inspired by Stephen King's Misery, as the author mentions, along with a couple of other books I don't know.
Quote:
No one uses words correctly, and if you call them on it, they claim that words are fungible, that it's oppressive and prissy not to let words mean whatever the speaker wishes them to mean.