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  • Mortal Lessons

    Notes on the Art of Surgery

    de Richard Selzer ...
    A surgeon shares true stories of life, death, and the human body in an essay collection that "will nail you to your chair" ( Saturday Review).With settings ranging from the operating theater to a Korean ambulance, and topics as varied as the disposition of a corpse and the author's own childhood, these nineteen captivating, wry, and intimate vignettes offer a poignant examination of health, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Diary

    de Richard Selzer ...
    Selections from the moving, beautifully crafted diary of a celebrated storyteller and surgeonSusan Cheever observed in a New York TimesBook Review appraisal of his memoir Down from Troy that Richard Selzer "cares more about truth than consequences . . . [and] immerses us in the facts we all know but hate to admit." Selzer's Diary picks up roughly where the memoir leaves off, as his writing life ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Letters To A Young Doctor

    de Richard Selzer ...
    Highly candid, insightful, and unexpectedly humorous essays on both the brutality and the beauty of the profession in which saving and losing lives is all in a day’s work. A timeless collection by the “best of the writing surgeons” (Chicago Tribune). With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Confessions of a Knife

    de Richard Selzer ...
    Narrado por Sam Gray ...

    Completo

    8 hora 10 minutos

    A professor of surgery and writing at Yale, Selzer opens windows on the world of medical oddities in this collection of candid, introspective essays. His subjects are sometimes grisly but always offer tantalizing insights. Selections including Sarcophagus, Pages from a Wound-Dresser's Diary, and Love Sick reveal Selzer's boundless curiosity about medicine, life, and art. ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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    Taking the World In for Repairs

    de Richard Selzer ...
    Narrado por Sam Gray ...

    Completo

    9 hora 32 minutos

    From Richard Selzer, professor of surgery and writing at Yale and award-winning author, comes 13 insightful essays that guide listeners on a fascinating tour of the world-from the deepest mysteries of faith to the inner workings of a slaughter house. In these sometimes outlandish slices of life from around the globe, Richard Selzer tantalizes listeners with observations that will encourage deep ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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    Down from Troy

    de Richard Selzer ...
    Narrado por Sam Gray ...

    Completo

    9 hora 11 minutos

    Dr. Richard Selzer, the writer and surgeon whose best-selling works have enthralled millions of literary critics and discriminating readers, returns to his boyhood in 1930s Troy, New York in this powerful memoir of medicine, dreams, and death. Down from Troy evokes the distinct character of Depression-era Troy-the sooty streets, horse-drawn hearses, saloons and brothels-and reveals how a poor boy ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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  • Diary

    de Witold Gombrowicz, Lillian Vallee ...
    Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Argentina, he began his Diary with one of literature's most memorable openings:"MondayMe.TuesdayMe.WednesdayMe.ThursdayMe."Gombrowicz's Diary grew to become a vast collection of essays, short notes, polemics, and confessions on myriad ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • After All

    Last Poems

    de William Matthews ...
    A collection from "one of the few contemporary poets who really knew how to make the vernacular sing" ( Library Journal).In this collection of poems completed shortly before his death, William Matthews seems to be looking his last on all things lovely: music, food and wine, love. In the stunning central poem, "Dire Cure," which forms a kind of spine to the book, he describes the remarkable ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Twenty Days of Turin

    A Novel

    Traducido por Ramon Glazov ...
    de Giorgio De Maria ...
    **An NPR Best Book of the YearVulture • “15 Must-Read Translated Books From the Past 5 Years”Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English-language debut.**In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s ... Leer más

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  • The Early Stories

    1953-1975

    de John Updike ...
    Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionA harvest and not a winnowing, this volume collects 103 stories, almost all of the short fiction that John Updike wrote between 1953 and 1975. “How rarely it can be said of any of our great American writers that they have been equally gifted in both long and short forms,” reads the citation composed for John Updike upon his winning the 2006 Rea Award for ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Taste of River Water

    new and selected poems

    de Cate Kennedy ...
    WINNER OF THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS C.J. DENNIS PRIZE FOR POETRYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDSDisarming, warm, and always accessible, Cate Kennedy’s poems make ordinary experiences glow. Everything that suffuses her well-loved prose is here: compassion, insight, lyrical precision, and the clear, minimalist eye that reveals how life can turn on a ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Me and the Devil

    A Novel

    de Nick Tosches ...
    An aging New Yorker, a writer named Nick, feels life ebbing out of him. The world has gone to hell and Nick is so sick of it all that he can't even have a glass of champagne. Then one night he meets a tantalizing young woman who agrees to come back to his apartment. Their encounter is the most strangely extraordinary of his life. Propelled by uncontrollable, primordial desires, he enters a new and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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