Confessions of a Knife: Meditations on the Art of Surgery (Paladin Books)

Richard Selzer

Medical Books

HarperCollins Distribution Ser

Mortal Lessons Notes On the Art of Surgery

Touchstone

Selzer, Richard, Confessions Of A Knife

Confessions of a Knife

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Simon&Schuster

Letters to a Young Doctor [hardcover] Richard selzer [Aug 25, 1982]

Letters to a Young Doctor

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Down From Troy

RECORDED BOOKS^

Taking the World in for Repairs

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

RECORDED BOOKS,INC.

A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists. In 1988, when author and former surgeon Richard Selzer answered a letter from Peter Josyph, a New York artist he had met, he did not know that he was embarking on the most enduring correspondence of his life. In thousands of letters, written in longhand over the course of two decades, Selzer devoted himself to the epistolary art―an art that, even among writers, has become increasingly rare in an age of cell phones, e-mails, and text messaging. “Letters are definitely a genre,” Selzer says, “and I think it’s one of the best.” As this lively and intimate collection demonstrates, Richard Selzer is one of its master practitioners. In spontaneous, conversational style, Selzer writes about his life and work with the unpredictable vision and sharpness of wit that, in his stories, memoirs, and personal essays, have made his reputation as one of the great prose stylists of his day. It is also the record of a friendship. As Peter Josyph remarks in his introduction, “With a good correspondence, as with the blowing between horn players improvising off each other’s riffs, it isn’t easy to say whether it’s art or society because it is both of them at once. This is a book about two men who value a friendship balanced upon words; men for whose friendship the phone is a thief; men who are comfortable with the U.S. mail.”

Letters to a Best Friend

Peter Josyph

Arts & Literature

Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press

Confesiones de Un Cuchillo (Spanish Edition)

Andres Bello

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