A good doctor's son
Subtitle: a novel
By: Steven Schwartz
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Teenage boys -- Fiction.; Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Fiction.; Wrongful death -- Fiction.; Children -- Death -- Fiction.; Pennsylvania -- Fiction.
Description: The son of a dedicated doctor and a fragile artistic mother, David grows up feeling an outsider as a Jew in a gentile neighborhood, but struggles to fit in. He becomes friends with a group of teenagers who play poker for high stakes, ride around in fast cars, and crack jokes about sex that leave fifteen-year-old (and still prepubescent) David laughing along in hidden pain.

A sudden challenge from his friends results in a horrifying accident, plunging David into a future far beyond any troubles he or his family could ever have imagined.

A Good Doctor's Son is David's story and his family's, but it is also a tale of remembrance for David's victim, a three-year-old girl, and her family and their anguish. At its center is a story that examines the grainy area between the good intentions of people and the unexpected ways they actually wind up living their lives - a gap that David must bridge to make his life whole.