Title: Rituals of surgery
Subtitle: short stories.
First published: 1974
Description: This collection of stories weaves together the fantastic and grotesque with surgical precision. The sense that death lurks round every corner is heightened by dark irony and wit. Richard Selzer brings to life the horrors of surgery while displaying compassion for his characters.
Subjects: Fiction, Surgery in fiction, Surgery, Surgeons, Surgeons in fiction, Fiction, medical, Physicians, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Medicine in Literature, Fictional Works, General Surgery