Samuel Shem

The House of God

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By turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, The House of God is a mesmerizing and provocative novel about what it really takes to become a doctor.The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon. Singularly compelling…brutally honest.-The New York TimesStruggling with grueling hours and sudden life-and-death responsibilities, Basch and his colleagues, under the leadership of their rule-breaking senior resident known only as the Fat Man, must learn not only how to be fine doctors but, eventually, good human beings. A phenomenon ever since it was published, The House of God was the first unvarnished, ung… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Updike, John

ISBN: 978-0-425-23809-7
EAN: 9780425238097
Produktnummer: 6877691
Verlag: Penguin Putnam
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 432 S.
Masse: H21.2 cm x B13.9 cm x D3.0 cm 373 g
Gewicht: 373
Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor

Samuel Shem is a novelist, playwright, and, for three decades, a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. His novels include The House of God, Mount Misery, and Fine. He is coauthor with his wife, Janet Surrey, of the hit Off-Broadway play Bill W. and Dr. Bob, the story of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (winner of the 2007 Performing Arts Award of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence), and We Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Men and Women.