The Tennis Partner - Hardcover

Verghese, Abraham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701165529 ISBN 13: 9780701165529

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, 1998

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Reseña del editor

In January 1994, Abraham Verghese, an indian doctor in a Texan teaching hospital, was called to the morgue to identify the body of his close friend, student and tennis partner David Smith. David had killed himself because he could not deal with his addiction to intravenously injected cocaine. This book is Verghese's tribute to his dead friend; it is also an attempt to understand and explain drug addiction. Being both doctor and friend, Verghese offers us a unique insight into addiction, describing with clinical detachment the horrific physical symptoms of abuse, revealing how the stress of the medical profession leads to the paradox of doctors as users and movingly evoking the pain of seeing a friend suffer. Written with great clarity and tenderness, this is an extraordinary and important book about male friendship and a moving portrait of a brilliant young man who fought valiantly against a profound sense of inadequacy.

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A story about male friendship and drug addiction, told by a doctor who watched his young friend and student, a brilliant tennis player, destroy his life with cocaine.

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• Verlag: Chatto & Windus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0701165529
• ISBN 13: 9780701165529
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352