Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures
Now in paperback: Twelve interwoven stories follow four young and ambitious doctors as they move from the challenges of medical school to the intense world of emergency rooms, evacuation missions, and terrifying new viruses. They fall in love as they study for their exams, face moral dilemmas as...
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Now in paperback: Twelve interwoven stories follow four young and ambitious doctors as they move from the challenges of medical school to the intense world of emergency rooms, evacuation missions, and terrifying new viruses. They fall in love as they study for their exams, face moral dilemmas as they split open cadavers, confront police who rough up their patients, and treat schizophrenics with pathologies similar to their own. Winner of the prestigious Giller Prize, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures marks the arrival of a deeply humane and preternaturally gifted writer.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781602860568 (1602860564)
Publish date: September 16th 2008
Publisher: Weinstein Books
Pages no: 374
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Health,
Medical,
Contemporary,
Medicine,
Short Stories,
Canada,
Canadian Literature
Three stars seems slightly stingy for this enjoyable book; I'd give it 3 1/2 if I could.That sneaky little subtitle "stories" is, in some ways, not quite accurate - the stories could easily be characterized as chapters of a novel, but a novel very loosely structured, and without a real sense of clos...
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