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For both Verghese and his tennis partner, a fourth-year medical student named David Smith, the game is a much-needed island of order in the midst of personal chaos. Both men are struggling to rebuild their lives, Verghese undergoing a painful divorce, Smith struggling with an intravenous cocaine addiction. For a brief, idyllic period, their friendship flourishes; Verghese mentors Smith in the examining room, while Smith, an Australian who competed briefly on the pro circuit, ends up Verghese's teacher on the court. But there are dark corners to David's personality, and under the mounting pressures of medical school and his increasingly complicated love life, these come to the fore. Even as he learns how to inhabit his new life, Verghese watches with horror as his friend relapses, dries out, then relapses again. The author of the powerful My Own Country, a chronicle of caring for AIDS patients in rural Tennessee, Verghese once again proves that the skills of a good doctor are strikingly similar to those of a good writer. Careful observation, compassion, restraint: these are the instruments Verghese uses to stunning effect in The Tennis Partner. A paean to the healing powers of tennis, this book is also a moving meditation on friendship, fatherhood, love, addiction, and the particular loneliness of physicians. --Mary Park
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From the author of the bestseller Cutting For Stone comes a deeply moving story about drug addiction, male friendship and tennis.When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unravelling, relocates to Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at a county hospital.There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from a drug addiction, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them to shed their inhibitions and find security, in the sport they love and in each other. But when the dark beast that is David's addiction emerges once again, almost everything Verghese has come to trust and believe in is threatened.Compassionate and moving, The Tennis Player is an unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive. The Tennis Partner is Abraham Verghese's tribute to his friend and tennis partner; a courageous young man who struggled with a drug addiction which eventually beat him. It is also an attempt to understand why people become addicts and how we can help them. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780099735014
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Book Description Condition: New. 1999. Paperback. A story about male friendship and drug addiction, told by a doctor who watched his young friend and student, a brilliant tennis player, destroy his life with cocaine. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780099735014
Book Description Condition: New. 1999. Paperback. A story about male friendship and drug addiction, told by a doctor who watched his young friend and student, a brilliant tennis player, destroy his life with cocaine. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250. . . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780099735014