What One Man Said to Another: Talks with Richard Selzer - Hardcover

Josyph, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870133624 ISBN 13: 9780870133626

Verlag: Michigan State University Press, 1994

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Book by Josyph Peter

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As Josyph says in his preface, "To walk with Richard Selzer is to walk with civilization," and these conversations are full of the sparkling wit, the piercing insight, the poetic vision, and the knowledge of both medicine and literature that have made him the most eloquent voice in the medical humanities movement while ranking him with the finest living authors of short fiction and personal essays. Along with controversial views on AIDS, euthanasia, and recent trends in medical training, these probing talks depict, in language that is by turns elegant, bawdy, and reflective, his harrowing experience as a surgeon in an isolated village in postwar Korea; his childhood during the Depression in a small tubercular town that was famous for its whores; his unconventional residency that led to singing a song from The Mikado during Grand Rounds; the unforgettable evening in which he saved the life of author John Cheever; his courtroom agony during a malpractice suit; and his encounters with celebrities such as Orson Welles, John Houseman, Richard Ellmann, Josef Albers, and one of Charlie's Angels.
Peter Josyph draws from his own multifaceted background to lead Selzer into a broad range of topics, proving, in every chapter, that the art of entertaining conversation is still very much alive.

Biografía del autor:

Peter Josyph is a bestselling author, editor, painter, and photographer. His work has appeared in "Southern Quarterly", "The Bloomsbury Review", "Library Journal", "Twentieth Century Literature", "Studies in Short Fiction", and "The Cormac McCarthy Journal". He edited "The Wounded River: The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D.", which was selected as one of the" New York Times Book Review's "Notable Books of 1993.

Richard Selzer is the author of numerous books and articles. He is a former surgeon and professor of surgery. Selzer taught writing at Yale University and is the recipient of dozens of awards and honors, including a Pushcart Prize, National Magazine Award (for his essays), an American Medical Writer's Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship. His work has been published in "New American Review, Esquire, Harper's", and other periodicals.

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• Verlag: Michigan State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0870133624
• ISBN 13: 9780870133626
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 263