Noah Gordon's "The Physician" is one of the finest examples of historical fiction I have ever read. Rich in historical and cultural detail, with fascinating characters, I did not want to put the book down.Rob Cole is apprenticed to a barber-surgeon when his father dies, and travels all over Anglo-S...
This is one of the most satisfying novels I've read in a long time. One of my rare six-star selections. There's a consistency of quality from cover to cover, owing to the perfect marriage of fine writing and graceful editing. Rob J. Cole is a man who feels called to be a healer. He stays true to...
In a city like NY they might have had trouble locating the construction job, but in Boston there were still only a few really tall buildings.I feel that medical fiction is not really my doctor's bag.
I think this is the 5th or 6th time I read this, and I enjoy it every bit as much as on my first read-through. It's a long book, but there's a reason for the length, as it allows the author (and the reader!) to dwell on the atmosphere of the different places Cole visits, on the things he learn and o...
TEST 2I thought perhaps the easiest way to synthesize my feelings towards this book was to answer the following 5 questions: When did the story take place: The first half of the eleventh century.Who were the central characters: Rob J Cole, his friends and employers and later his wife (Mary Cullen)...
If you're like me and don't know a lot about late-15th-century Spain, this novel is a nice accessible little history lesson. I learned a lot about beliefs and customs at the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Ferdinand and Isabella issued a royal edict expelling all Jews from Spain. Fifteen-year-old ...
To somebody who usually loves Noah Gordon's books, this was a huge disappointment. Slow-moving and not nearly as captivating as any of his other books. I kept reading because until now he's been one of my favourites authors, so I kept thinking the book would improve. And it did - I started to get in...
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