Surgeon Stories
Fiction
$53.30
- Hardcover
228 pages
- Release Date
20 June 2021
Summary
Daly Walker’s Surgeon Stories is a book of the body, and the physician, particularly the surgeon, is the shaman of the body. For many of us, the physician-surgeon has been the body’s personal champion and sometimes savior in the face of disease, accident, aging, human violence, and war. While most of these categories of threat are inevitably faced by all of us, war is the ultimate ogre, and its ravages dwarf and challenge even the most skilled physician.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781951479442 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1951479440 |
| Author: | Daly Walker |
| Publisher: | Grand Canyon Press |
| Imprint: | Grand Canyon Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 228 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 20 June 2021 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
This is among the best collections of stories I’ve encountered over the last decade or so fiercely dramatic, immaculately composed, and so moving that even the most hardened heart must tremble. Treat yourself to the great beauty of Surgeon Stories. –Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried and July, July
With an insider’s view of the medical profession, Daly Walker writes engaging stories, which often reveal their doctor protagonists to be just as flawed and human as their patients. The result is an eye-opening collection of stories. –Billy Collins
Riveting and beautiful! With this collection of linked stories about the lives of surgeons, Daly Walker joins the ranks of other great doctor-writers Anton Chekhov, William Carlos Williams, Walker Percy, Ethan Canin who understand the frailties of the human heart as well as they do the human body. His prose is as artful and precise as a surgeon’s scalpel, and his skill is, more importantly, always in service of narratives that reveal not only his characters fierce, frequently ambivalent devotion to their medical vocations but also their rich, unsentimental, and deeply conflicted inner lives. –K.L. Cook, author of Last Call and Love Songs for the Quarantined
With an insider s view of the medical profession, Daly Walker writes engaging stories, which often reveal their doctor-protagonists to be just as flawed and human as their patients. The result is an eye-opening collection of stories. –Billy Collins
Riveting and beautiful! With this collection of linked stories about the lives of surgeons, Daly Walker joins the ranks of other great doctor-writers Anton Chekhov, William Carlos Williams, Walker Percy, Ethan Canin who understand the frailties of the human heart as well as they do the human body. His prose is as artful and precise as a surgeon s scalpel, and his skill is, more importantly, always in service of narratives that reveal not only his characters fierce, frequently ambivalent devotion to their medical vocations but also their rich, unsentimental, and deeply conflicted inner lives. K. L. Cook, author of Last Call and Love Songs for the Quarantined –K.L. Cook, author of Last Call and Love Songs for the Quarantined
Daly Walker
Daly Walker is a retired surgeon and a writer of literary fiction. He divides his time between Boca Grande, Florida and Quechee, Vermont. When in Vermont, he teaches a fiction writers’ workshop for the Osher program at Dartmouth College.
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