Following four young medical students and physicians, this debut collection of 12 interwoven short stories from 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner Lam is a riveting, eye-opening account of what it means to be a doctor.Hachette Book Group USA
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Following four young medical students and physicians, this debut collection of 12 interwoven short stories from 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner Lam is a riveting, eye-opening account of what it means to be a doctor.Hachette Book Group USA
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Fine in new dust jacket. Non-smoking home. Tight binding, no marks, spine creases or bent pages. Address label on fly leaf. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 353 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x8; Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 352 pages, red boards. A near fine, clean neat hard cover first edition with little shelf wear, gently read; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good dust jacket with light sporadic foxing to the front panel, and 2 numbers written on back strip, with the original price present.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. In this short story debut by the Canadian writer Vincent Lam, the writer/emergency room physician shows his skillful ability to balance black humor and realistic moral dilemmas in stories capturing the vivid details of the disparate but interdependent worlds of school and home. Drawing from his experiences in medical school and his family's lineage as Asian expatriates, Lam creates a series of riveting stories looking at the lives of doctors and their patients which reveal another side of the challenges medicine and temptations of young love. Winner of the 2006 Giller Prize for fiction, "Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures" is a provocative and humanist look into the lives of doctors.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book. As a physician and minister, I was quite impresssed not only by the accuracy of his medical descriptions in his beautiful prose, but more so by his emphasis on the inner lives of his characters--their histories, suffering, drives and motivations--their humanness. I have also worked in a busy county ER in a large metropolitan hub for 5 years and can attest that it is difficult to keep your focus on people as human beings in this demanding, high pressure setting. I don't think the title really has anything to do with the contents, but certainly the picture of a heart on the cover is accurate--it is a book written with heart. I look very much forward to his novel.