| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0-553-27811-8 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780553278118 |
| No of pages | 678 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | RHUS |
| Published Date | 01 Jul 1989 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0-553-27811-8 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780553278118 |
| No of pages | 678 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | RHUS |
| Published Date | 01 Jul 1989 |
My father became world famous - beloved by the reading public, pilloried by an envious academic community who believed that professors ought not to venture into popular culture.
And I missed it all. But I know his novels, and I was lucky enough to know their extraordinary author. My father was such a gentle man, and as a result he wrote innocent, tender novels.
They have his heart and soul and honesty and humor, and that combination, rarer than it should be, is alchemical.
He was 30 when he sat down, one frigid, snow-silenced winter break in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to write Love Story.
He was a young dynamic professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Yale and he had just learned a former student of his from Harvard had lost his wife to cancer at twenty-five.
My father, a few years older and still grieving the death of his own father, was consumed by the story.
It is no coincidence that my father was a Classicist - the arc of his story is as old as time, and ever relevant. It's true of all his novels.
Each takes on a broad, serious subject - religion, family, infidelity, medicine. science - but more than anything else they are very human stories; fast-paced, engaging plots about warm and vivid characters, real people we can root for.
My father adored even the ancient roots of popular entertainment, and unlike many others in his field, understood that to move the broader public, to speak to the hearts of the people, requires an understanding of and a care for the everyman. It is to the everyman, in real life, that tragedy happens, and above all, love.
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Doctors, Erich Segal's enlightening work of fiction is both a love story and an eye-opening study of the training and practice of American health professionals. The author has crafted a powerful and moving account of the 1962 batch of Harvard medical school. We experience the trials and tribulations that doctors go through, to be what they are.
Demanding hours of internship, facing and overcoming their worst fears and the many hours of rigorous research and residency are portrayed. In the narrative it is clear that doctors are as flawed as other people but due to the nature of their work they are elevated to a demi-God status. The book leads us through the various incidences that the med school graduates encounter which transform them into the doctors they eventually become.
Writing with all the passion of Love Story and power of The Class, Erich Segal's stunning novel reveals the making of doctors-what makes them tick, scheme, hurt and love. From the crucible of medical school's merciless training through the demanding hours of internship to the triumphs, Doctors makes a journey out of it all. Doctors brings to vivid life the men and women who seek to heal but who must first walk through fire.
At the novel's heart is the unforgettable relationship of Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano, childhood friends who separately find unsettling and unsatisfying love until their friendship ripens into passion. Yet even with their devotion to each other, even their medical gifts may not be enough to save the one life they treasure above all others. Doctors is heartbreaking, witty, inspiring and an utterly gripping real portrait of life. The book was published in 1989 and is available in paperback.