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Product Description: A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists. In 1988, when author and former surgeon Richard Selzer answered a letter from Peter Josyph, a New York artist he had met, he did not know that he was embarking on the most enduring correspondence of his life...read more

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9781438427225 | Reprint edition (State Univ of New York Pr, July 2, 2015), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists.

Product Description: Written from a series of extended conversations between friends, this is the autobiography of Richard Selzer, respected surgeon and writer, as told to New York artist and writer Peter Josyph. The sparkling wit, profound insight, and unique poetic vision that characterize Selzers writings are present in every one of these lively conversations...read more

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9780870133626 | Michigan State Univ Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: What One Man Said to Another is, on one level, a series of extended conversations between friends.

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9781470891343 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 2013), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Written from a series of extended conversations between friends, this is the autobiography of Richard Selzer, respected surgeon and writer, as told to New York artist and writer Peter Josyph.

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Product Description: Susan Cheever observed in a New York Times Book Review appraisal of his memoir Down from Troy that Richard Selzer "cares more about truth than consequences . . . [and] immerses us in the facts we all know but hate to admit." Selzer's Diary picks up roughly where the memoir leaves off, as his writing life flourishes and surgical career ends...read more

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9780300124613 | Yale Univ Pr, March 29, 2011, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Susan Cheever observed in a New York Times Book Review appraisal of his memoir Down from Troy that Richard Selzer "cares more about truth than consequences .

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9780300191974 | 1 edition (Yale Univ Pr, March 28, 2013), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Susan Cheever observed in a New York Times Book Review appraisal of his memoir Down from Troy that Richard Selzer "cares more about truth than consequences .

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Product Description: A beautifully crafted memoir by one of America’s finest storytellers.In this beloved classic, Richard Selzer recounts his childhood in Troy, New York, during the Great Depression. No easy town to come of age in, Troy in the 1930s was a city long past its prime, “full of whores and TB,” and as the son of a general practitioner, Selzer had occasion to view both up close...read more

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9780792716402 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, March 1, 1994), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: This beautifully crafted memoir by one of America's finest storytellers generally is considered Richard Selzer's most moving and personal work.
9780688097158 | William Morrow & Co, July 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Recounting his life and work, a surgeon and essayist describes his Depression-era boyhood in New York State, his dual career as doctor and writer, the death of his father, and more

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9781438434445 | Reprint edition (Excelsior Editions, August 1, 2010), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A beautifully crafted memoir by one of America’s finest storytellers.
9780870136030 | Michigan State Univ Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $21.95
9780792716396 | Large print edition (John Curley & Assoc, March 1, 1994), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This beautifully crafted memoir by one of America's finest storytellers generally is considered Richard Selzer's most moving and personal work.
9780316780650 | Reprint edition (Little Brown & Co, September 1, 1993), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Recounting his life and work, a surgeon and essayist describes his Depression-era boyhood in New York State, his dual career as doctor and writer, and the death of his father

By Richard Selzer (foreword by)

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9781438431543 | Reprint edition (Excelsior Editions, November 5, 2009), cover price $21.95

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Product Description: Knife Song Korea chronicles a tumultuous year in the life of Sloane, a young surgeon in the Korean War. Drafted into the army and assigned to an artillery unit in a remote rural area on the edges of the war, Sloane must cope with harsh living conditions, a brutal workload, and intense feelings of personal isolation...read more

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9781438427614 | Excelsior Editions, July 9, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Knife Song Korea chronicles a tumultuous year in the life of Sloane, a young surgeon in the Korean War.

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The physician-turned-writer shares twenty-four pieces of writing on painting, sculpture, war, medicine, and other subjects, applying his humor, charm, and eccentric voice to each narrative.

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9781593760199 | Counterpoint, June 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The physician-turned-writer shares twenty-four pieces of writing on painting, sculpture, war, medicine, and other subjects, applying his humor, charm, and eccentric voice to each narrative.

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9781593761387, titled "The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays" | Counterpoint, January 28, 2007, cover price $16.00

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The author, a former surgeon and Yale School of Medicine professor, presents a brilliant collection of his classic essays, drawn from three decades of writing, that center around the thought-provoking questions of life and death. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780312263133 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, March 1, 2002), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: The author, a former surgeon and Yale School of Medicine professor, presents a brilliant collection of his classic essays, drawn from three decades of writing, that center around the thought-provoking questions of life and death.

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A surgeon comments on the human condition in this collection of macabre tales (view table of contents)

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9780870135767 | Reprint edition (Michigan State Univ Pr, December 1, 2001), cover price $18.95
9780688064907 | Reprint edition (William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1987), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A surgeon comments on the human condition in this collection of macabre tales

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Product Description: The former surgeon writes of his own near-death experience after being diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease and lapsing into a coma. The fragility of health and robustness of imagination merge when this seemingly healthy man's legs collapse suddenly beneath him, propelling him into a 23-day coma triggered by Legionnaire's Disease...read more

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9780870136047 | Reprint edition (Michigan State Univ Pr, December 1, 2001), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The former surgeon writes of his own near-death experience after being diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease and lapsing into a coma.

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Product Description: Merging art and religion with science, these largely autobiographical essays delve deeply into the emotional territory of medicine commonly avoided by other writers. This collection, first published in 1979, utilizes the physical body as a means to explore the human mind and soul...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780870136054 | Reprint edition (Michigan State Univ Pr, November 1, 2001), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Merging art and religion with science, these largely autobiographical essays delve deeply into the emotional territory of medicine commonly avoided by other writers.
9780688064914 | Reissue edition (Macmillan Pub Co, March 1, 1987), cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Merging art and religion with science, these largely autobiographical essays delve deeply into the emotional territory of medicine commonly avoided by other writers.

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A collection of short stories exploring what it means to tend to the sick and dying includes 'Avalanche,' 'Whither thou goest,' 'The Masked Marvel's last toehold,' 'Pages from a wound dresser's diary,' and 'Poe's lighthouse'

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9780312186876 | Picador USA, August 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories exploring what it means to tend to the sick and dying includes 'Avalanche,' 'Whither thou goest,' 'The Masked Marvel's last toehold,' 'Pages from a wound dresser's diary,' and 'Poe's lighthouse'

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9780312204037 | Picador USA, September 1, 1999, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A collection of short stories exploring what it means to tend to the sick and dying includes 'Avalanche,' 'Whither thou goest,' 'The Masked Marvel's last toehold,' 'Pages from a wound dresser's diary,' and 'Poe's lighthouse'

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Autobiographical reflections and parables from the noted surgeon and author--in turn grimly humorous, painful, and inspirational--articulate the lessons to be learned during an internship in surgery

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9780671253394 | 1 edition (Simon & Schuster, August 1, 1982), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Highly candid, insightful, and unexpectedly humorous essays on both the brutality and the beauty of the profession in which saving and losing lives is all in a day’s work.

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9780156003995 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, April 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Autobiographical reflections and parables from the noted surgeon and author--in turn grimly humorous, painful, and inspirational--articulate the lessons to be learned during an internship in surgery
9780671442996 | Simon & Schuster, November 1, 1983, cover price $9.95

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A surgeon at the Yale Medical Center writes of the craft and practice of the operating room, blending narrative clinical material with dramatic and metaphoric tableaux of the human body

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9780156004008 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, April 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A surgeon at the Yale Medical Center writes of the craft and practice of the operating room, blending narrative clinical material with dramatic and metaphoric tableaux of the human body
9780671641023 | Reissue edition (Touchstone Books, July 1, 1987), cover price $8.95

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Offers a collection of offbeat tales that explore a world of madness, obsession, disease, medicine, and the macabre, in 'Whither Thou Goest,' 'Pipistrel,' 'Lindlow Man,' and the title story

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9780394585352 | Random House Inc, November 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Offers a collection of offbeat tales that explore a world of madness, obsession, disease, medicine, and the macabre, in 'Whither Thou Goest,' 'Pipistrel,' 'Lindlow Man,' and the title story

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9780870134586 | Reprint edition (Michigan State Univ Pr, April 1, 1996), cover price $16.95

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Product Description: In 1991, Dr. Richard Selzer contracted Legionnaire's disease, lapsed into a coma, and began a painful journey to a place where there was "more than a hint of death." This book recounts that mysterious, dramatic journey--a trip to the underworld of disease, a place where death is constantly close...read more

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9780670854141, titled "Raising the Dead: A Doctor's Encounter With His Own Mortality" | Viking Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $17.50 | About this edition: The author recounts his own near-death experience, describing his sudden collapse, his twenty-three days in a coma, his hallucinations, and his fight with death

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9780140234893, titled "Raising the Dead: A Doctor's Encounter With His Own Mortality" | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 1, 1995), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: In 1991, Dr.

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Product Description: A collection of a dozen short stories, essays, and memoirs originally published in 1986, and now available in trade paperback. Richard Selzer retired as a surgeon in 1984 to write about his profession. His books include Letters to a Young Doctor, Confessions of a Knife, Mortal Lessons, Rituals of Surgery, and most recent, Raising the Dead...read more

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9780688064891 | William Morrow & Co, September 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In a collection of twelve essays and stories, the author investigates his own relationship, as a man and as a doctor, to the world around him

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9780870133633 | Reprint edition (Michigan State Univ Pr, November 1, 1994), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of a dozen short stories, essays, and memoirs originally published in 1986, and now available in trade paperback.
9780140103052 | Penguin USA, December 1, 1987, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A collection of a dozen short stories, essays, and memoirs originally published in 1986, and now available in trade paperback.

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Hardcover:

9780517114896 | Gramercy, March 1, 1994, cover price $4.99

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