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Holt, Terrence
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Fiction
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2014
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Liveright
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English
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Internal medicine: a doctor's stories
โ Scribed by Terrence Holt
- Book ID
- 100126442
- Publisher
- Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd;Black Inc. Books
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 174 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0871408805
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"[Terrence Holt] is Melville + Poe + Borges but with a heart far more capacious." --Junot Diฬaz
A collection of essays about life as a surgical intern.
Terrence Holt, whose In the Valley of the Kings was hailed as a "work of genius" (New York Times) and made Amazon's Top Ten Short Story Collections of the year, brings a writer's eye and a doctor's touch to this powerful account of residency.
Intense, ironic, heartfelt, and heartbreaking, these nine vivid stories put us at the bedside of a patient dying in a house full of cursing parrots, through a nightmarish struggle to convince a man that he has cancer, at a life-and-death effort to keep an oxygen mask on a claustrophobic patient, and in the lounge of a snowbound hospital where doctors swap yarns through the night.
Out of these "dioramas from the Museum of Human Misery", Holt draws meaning, beauty, wonder, and truth. Personal, poignant, and meticulously precise, these stories evoke...
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