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Likewise, he tells davids story honestly and movingly. Abraham verghese during his time at the university of texas elpaso. Tennis was so much more than a game, verghese writes at one point and yet, as he acknowledges at the end, it is also just a game a simple, even slightly absurd ritual of the yellow ball. Find books like the tennis partner from the worlds largest community of readers. When abraham verghese, a physician whose marriage more. Download the tennis partner by verghese, abraham 1999 paperback and read the tennis partner by verghese, abraham 1999 paperback online books in format pdf.
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed new york times bestselling author of cutting for stone. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. The first edition of the novel was published in 1998, and was written by abraham verghese. Verghese is a physician and an already accomplished author. A story of friendship and loss, about his friend and. Abraham verghese is professor and vice chair for the theory and practice of medicine at the stanford university school of medicine. In 1999, indianamerican author abraham verghese published his second book, the tennis partner. Like everyone else, i read abraham vergheses cutting for stone a couple of years ago when it was the hottest thing since sliced bread. His two nonfiction books, my own country, about aids in rural tennessee, and the tennis partner, a. The main characters of this fiction, historical story are thomas stone, sister mary joseph praise.
The tennis partner by abraham verghese book club discussion. And just when it seems nothing more can go wrong, the dark beast from davids past emerges once again. Read the tennis partner pdf by abraham verghese harper in my own country, named one of the five best books of 1994 by time. When he meets a medical student, david smith, they begin a tennis.
I had loved vergheses cutting for stone, so could hardly wait to read the tennis partner. The tennis partner is the second of abraham vergheses books. 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. In my own country, named one of the five best books of 1994 by time magazine, abraham verghese ventured into the valley of the smokey mountains, where he bore witness to the arrival of aids in a town that had never expected the disease or its terrible consequences.
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Abraham vergheses first book my own country was about his experiences of dealing with aids sufferers. My own country a doctors story download pdfepub ebook. Feb 03, 2009 cutting for stone ebook written by abraham verghese. Avaliable format in pdf, epub, mobi, kindle, e book and audiobook. Currently a professor of internal medicine at stanford university, he has also served on faculties in iowa, texas, and tennessee. Abraham verghese takes on his own fascination with tennis and comes up with as good an explanation as any. As david spirals out of control, almost everything verghese has come to trust and believe in is threatened. Verghese is willing to let the reader into his mind as he deals with a particularly difficult period in his life. Abraham verghese s memoir the tennis partner tells the story of a deeply moving friendship between two doctors. The tennis partner is his second memoir i guess im reading his books in reverse.
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