The Tennis Partner : A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss

A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss

By: Abraham Verghese

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Paperback | 1 September 1999 | Edition Number 1

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352 Pages

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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 and tennis partner David Smith. David had killed himself because he could not deal with his addiction to intravenously injected cocaine. This book is Verghese's tribute to his dead friend; it is also an attempt to understand and explain drug addiction. Being both doctor and friend, Verghese offers us a unique insight into addiction, describing with clinical detachment the horrific physical symptons of abuse, revealing how the stress of the medical profession leads to the paradox of doctors as users and movingly evoking the pain of seeing a friend suffer. Written with great clarity and tenderness, this is an extraordinary and important book about male friendship and a moving portrait of a brilliant young man who fought valiantly against a profound sense of inadequacy.

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"Verghese is a fine writer, lyrical and controlled, and he captures the attachment between two men - its motives, its allure - with both precision and charm... Wise and compassionate" * New York Times Book Review * "A brave and heart-baring story" * Time * "Heartbreaking... Indelible and haunting... An elegy to friendship found and an ode to a good friend lost" * Boston Globe *

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