Autobiographical reflections and parables from the noted surgeon and author--in turn grimly humorous, painful, and inspirational--articulate the lessons to be learned during an internship in surgery.
A surgeon at the Yale Medical Center writes of the craft and practice of the operating room, blending narrative clinical material with dramatic and metaphoric tableaux of the human body.
Now back in print once again, this beautifully crafted memoir by one of America's finest storytellers generally is considered Richard Selzer's most moving and personal work. The story is set in Troy, New York, during the Great Depression of the 1930s and is a classic rite-of-passage tale. Selzer was the son of two strong-willed parents, both of ...
A collection of a dozen short stories, essays, and memoirs originally published in 1986, and now available in trade paperback. Richard Selzer retired as a surgeon in 1984 to write about his profession. His books include Letters to a Young Doctor, Confessions of a Knife, Mortal Lessons, Rituals of Surgery, and most recent, Raising the Dead.
Selzer's first collection of stories (published in 1974) weaves together the fantastic and grotesque with surgical precision. The sense that death lurks around every corner is heightened by dark irony and wit. He brings to light the horrors of surgery while displaying overwhelming compassion for his characters, creating a provocative commentary on ...
Selzer, a surgeon turned writer, explores the fleshly matter of living. Some articles in this collection have been previously published; however, his contemplative tone and honesty tie together his discussions of AIDS, medicine and faith, and graphic bodily functions.
In this collection of 24 pieces--from diaries and memoirs to essays on painting and sculpture, from essays on travel to translation and fiction--Selzer leads readers on an exhilarating tour, led by a remarkable wisdom and imagination.
This volume presents the text of a play that focuses on two gay lovers, one in an exhausting battle with AIDS, and two friends who join together to help the man with AIDS end his life.
Stories of sweetness and light these are not; but those with a taste for the truly suspenseful and horrific need to go no farther than these investment, disturbing tales by a master of the genre.
Selzer's selection of his own classic essays, culled from three decades of writing, is published for the first time along with five new pieces, including "Phantom Vision" and "Braindeath", four essays previously published solely in magazines and journals, and an introduction detailing the making of this virtuoso doctor/writer.
In this collection of 24 pieces--from diaries and memoirs to essays on painting and sculpture, from essays on travel to translation and fiction--Selzer leads readers on an exhilarating tour, led by a remarkable wisdom and imagination.
Merging art and religion with science, these largely autobiographical essays delve deeply into the emotional territory of medicine commonly avoided by other writers. This collection, first published in 1979, utilises the physical body as a means to explore the human mind and soul. Never hesitant to admit his own frailties, Selzer draws readers a ...
Knife Song Korea chronicles a tumultuous year in the life of Sloane, a young surgeon in the Korean War. Drafted into the army and assigned to an artillery unit in a remote rural area on the edges of the war, Sloane must cope with harsh living conditions, a brutal workload, and intense feelings of personal isolation. The only doctor for miles, he ...
In 1988, when author and former surgeon Richard Selzer answered a letter from Peter Josyph, a New York artist he had met, he did not know that he was embarking on the most enduring correspondence of his life. In thousands of letters, written in longhand over the course of two decades, Selzer devoted himself to the epistolary art--an art that, even ...
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