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Taking the World in for Repairs

SELZER, Richard

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin??Books

In 1991, Dr. Richard Selzer contracted Legionnaire's disease, lapsed into a coma, and began a painful journey to a place where there was "more than a hint of death." This book recounts that mysterious, dramatic journey--a trip to the underworld of disease, a place where death is constantly close.

Raising the Dead: A Doctor's Encounter with His Own Mortality

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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.

Letters To A Young Doctor (Harvest Book)

Harper Paperbacks

In this collection of nineteen unforgettable essays, Dr. Selzer describes unsparingly the surgeon’s art. Both moving and perversely funny, Mortal Lessons is an established classic that considers not only the workings and misworkings of the human body but also the meaning of life and death. With a Preface written by the Author especially for this edition.

Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery

HARCOURT, BRACE

Susan Cheever observed in a New York Times Book 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 flourishes and surgical career ends. Stripped of the doctor-writer's "privilege of [walking] about all day in the middle of a short story," Selzer shifts his focus to his interior life. In Diary, the author's successes and regrets, as well as the humor and sadness that surround him, are revealed with the same empathy and vividness that made him one of the great doctor-writers of modern literature.Diary brings together stories and observations dashed off on park benches and in library carrels over the past decade. Following the success of such books as Confessions of a Knife and The Doctor Stories, Selzer's diary entries recount life lived in the shadow of both achievement and disappointment. He introduces a varied cast of characters, from the distinguished fellowship of the "Boys Friendly" to his "fellow loonies," and evokes the streets, buildings, and parks of Yale and New Haven with vibrancy and affection. And throughout, Selzer faces the looming specter of old age. The distinctive voice that paved the way for other notable doctor-writers like Jerome Groopman and Abraham Verghese is revealed here to be no less compelling with the spotlight turned on himself and the drama of everyday living.

Diary

Professionals & Academics

Yale University Press

Selections from the moving, beautifully crafted diary of a celebrated storyteller and surgeon Susan 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 flourishes and surgical career ends. Stripped of the doctor-writer's "privilege of [walking] about all day in the middle of a short story," Selzer shifts his focus to his interior life. In Diary, the author's successes and regrets, as well as the humor and sadness that surround him, are revealed with the same empathy and vividness that made him one of the great doctor-writers of modern literature.
Diary brings together stories and observations dashed off on park benches and in library carrels over the past decade. Following the success of such books as Confessions of a Knife and TheDoctor Stories, Selzer's diary entries recount life lived in the shadow of both achievement and disappointment. He introduces a varied cast of characters, from the distinguished fellowship of the "Boys Friendly" to his "fellow loonies," and evokes the streets, buildings, and parks of Yale and New Haven with vibrancy and affection. And throughout, Selzer faces the looming specter of old age. The distinctive voice that paved the way for other notable doctor-writers like Jerome Groopman and Abraham Verghese is revealed here to be no less compelling with the spotlight turned on himself and the drama of everyday living.

The Doctor Stories

A collection of short stories exploring what it means to tend to the sick and dying includes "Avalanche," "Whither thou goest," "The Masked Marvel's last toehold," "Pages from a wound dresser's diary," and "Poe's lighthouse"

Literature & Fiction

United States

Picador USA

The Doctor Stories is Richard Selzer's selection of his own short stories, culled from three decades of writing, along with two new stories and an introduction detailing his literary beginnings. Drawing from his classic books, Selzer portrays the interactions of people at moments of crisis and drama. His signature style is apparent in every sentence: humane, observant, passionately descriptive, and particular, always connecting the intimate with the largest questions of life and death.

Picador

The Exact Location of the Soul: New and Selected Essays

Richard Selzer selects from his own classic essays, culled from three decades of writing. Published along with his favorites are five new essays, including "Phantom Vision" and "Braindeath," and an introduction detailing the making of this virtuoso doctor/writer. Compassionate, moving and perversely funny, Richard Selzer's essays intimately connect us with profound questions of life and death.

Essays & Correspondence

"Richard Selzer soars, leaving the vast majority of what are known as 'popular medicine writers' still toiling in the trenches of 'science' and 'humanism' below. His writings, sustained by astonishing imaginative, intellectual, and technical gifts, giv

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Taking the World in for Repairs

Raising the Dead: A Doctor's Encounter with His Own Mortality

Letters To A Young Doctor (Harvest Book)

Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery

Diary

Diary

The Doctor Stories

The Doctor Stories

The Exact Location of the Soul: New and Selected Essays

The Exact Location of the Soul: New and Selected Essays