Cutting for stone : a novel / Abraham Verghese.
Marion, fresh out of medical school, flees Ethiopia and makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him--nearly destroying him--Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.
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- ISBN: 9780375414497
- ISBN: 0375414495
- Physical Description: 541 p. ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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Subject: | Physicians > Fiction. Brothers > Fiction. Fathers and sons > Fiction. Ethiopia > Fiction. Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction. |
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Abraham Verghese is Professor and Senior Associate Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, where he is now an adjunct professor. He is the author of My Own Country, a 1994 NBCC Finalist and a Time Best Book of the Year, and The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book. A graduate of the Iowa Writersâ Workshop, he has published essays and short stories that have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Granta, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He lives in Palo Alto, California.