Direct Red: A Surgeons Story Air/Ire/Exp - Softcover

Weston, G

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0224085638 ISBN 13: 9780224085632

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: February. 2009 Pages: 192 Publisher: Jonathan Cape How does IT Feel to SOMEONE's LiFe. hold in your hands What is it like to cut INTO someone else's the body What is IT like to stand by. Powerless. The while SOMEONE dies because of the incompetence of your seniors How do you tell a beautiful young man who seems perfectly fit that he has only a few days left to live Gaiel Weston worked in the big-city hospitals of the twenty-first century; a woman in a world dominated by Alpha males. Her world was one of disease. suffering and extraordinary pressure where a certain moral ambiguity and clinical detachment were necessary tools for survival. Startling and honest. her account combines a fierce sense of human dignity with compassion and insight. illuminating scenes of life and death the rest of us rarely glimpse.

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Review:

Gabriel Weston's exactitude of expression is rare and uncanny, the more so for the sense one gets that this is a world in which the moral value of truthfulness is ambiguous. Her description of the struggle to remain individual and hence moral is her real achievement. This, to me, is what female writing has to do, and she does it with style and humour and beauty. --Rachel Cusk

Perceptive and beautifully written. An original voice. --Dr James Le Fanu

Book Description:

"Gabriel Weston writes with an honesty that is both brave and uncomfortable"

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0224085638
• ISBN 13: 9780224085632
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192