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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Daly WalkerPublisher: Grand Canyon Press Imprint: Grand Canyon Press Edition: 2nd ed. Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9781951479459ISBN 10: 1951479459 Pages: 228 Publication Date: 20 June 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThis 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 Daly Walker has written a heartfelt book from deep experience. -Thomas McGuane, author of Driving on the Rim Crafted in language crisp and precise, Surgeon Stories delivers the kind of quiet tragedies that reaffirm the redemptive power of storytelling. -John Pipkin, author of Woodsburner 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 Daly Walker has written a heartfelt book from deep experience. -Thomas McGuane, author of Driving on the Rim Crafted in language crisp and precise, Surgeon Stories delivers the kind of quiet tragedies that reaffirm the redemptive power of storytelling. -John Pipkin, author of Woodsburner Author InformationDaly 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |