A charming novel following the struggles a naive, sentimental student striving to move beyond family, self, and place in the late 1960s.Confessions of a Medical Student charts 20yearold Ben Adlers tragiccomic journey from home to medschool and the world beyond. Callow and impressionable, Ben leaves his overanxious RussianJewish parents in their Toronto drugstore, and Angie, his girlfriend whom he plans to marry against his parents wishes. In anatomy, Ben dissects his cadaver, Clive, with labmates.As the first blush of medschool fades, Ben learns of his fathers lifethreatening illness. Cashpoor, Ben enlists in the Navy to earn room and board, joins Lennys Underground Railroad for draftdodgers, jeopardizing studies and provoking his ill fathers scorn.The novel chronicles the tumultuous years 19661971 through the eyes of a naive, sentimental student striving to move beyond family, self, and place. Ben careens from mistake to mistake over four years, yet at the novels end he emerges with selfknowledge and a touch of worldly pain and wisdom.
Binding: Paperback;436 pages; Publisher: Sphinx; Classification: N/A; Weight: 545.47 g; Dimensions: N/A
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A charming novel following the struggles a naive, sentimental student striving to move beyond family, self, and place in the late 1960s.Confessions of a Medical Student charts 20yearold Ben Adlers tragiccomic journey from home to medschool and the world beyond. Callow and impressionable, Ben leaves his overanxious RussianJewish parents in their Toronto drugstore, and Angie, his girlfriend whom he plans to marry against his parents wishes. In anatomy, Ben dissects his cadaver, Clive, with labmates.As the first blush of medschool fades, Ben learns of his fathers lifethreatening illness. Cashpoor, Ben enlists in the Navy to earn room and board, joins Lennys Underground Railroad for draftdodgers, jeopardizing studies and provoking his ill fathers scorn.The novel chronicles the tumultuous years 19661971 through the eyes of a naive, sentimental student striving to move beyond family, self, and place. Ben careens from mistake to mistake over four years, yet at the novels end he emerges with selfknowledge and a touch of worldly pain and wisdom.
Binding: Paperback;436 pages; Publisher: Sphinx; Classification: N/A; Weight: 545.47 g; Dimensions: N/A
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