The doctor stories
By: Richard Selzer.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Physicians -- Fiction; Medical fiction, American; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Description: A novella, stories and essays. The novella, Avalanche, which is set in Argentina, is on a city woman's doomed romance with a gaucho, while in Whither Thou Goest a wife makes a gift of her dead husband's body parts, the story based on the author's experience as a surgeon.