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A good doctor's son : a novel
- Title
- A good doctor's son : a novel / Steven Schwartz.
- Author
- Schwartz, Steven, 1950-
- Publication
- New York : William Morrow, [1998], ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3569.C5676 S57 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 276 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- ISBN
- 0688154018 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 97023601
- OCLC
- ocm37037390
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries