The Case Of Doctor Sachs - Softcover

Winckler, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583222618 ISBN 13: 9781583222614

Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

Bruno Sachs is a country doctor who makes house calls and feels deeply for his patients. There are broken bones, unwanted pregnancies, people without the will to live, a friend dying of cancer. His pity for his fellow creatures is both his motivating force and his own untreatable condition. Among the deaths, love affairs, and small town gossip, a love story emerges at the heart of the novel-between Dr. Sachs and a young woman upon whom he once performed an abortion.
The Case of Dr. Sachs is a novel filled with voices of silent suffering and arias of quiet joy, and one dedicated to the notion that literature, like medicine, can save lives.

About this title

Synopsis:

A Striking and Imaginative Tale of Misery and Joy in the Life of a Family Doctor; A huge best-seller in France and in hardcover, with over 600,000 copies already sold, this unique work, mixing medicinal anecdotes with a beautiful, morally complicated story, is now finally available in the UK! Written in part in the second person, Dr. Sachs is expressed through simple words of aching sorrow and arias of quiet joy. But his character comes to life through the eyes and impressions of his many patients, colleagues and friends, as they describe an incident in his office, a glimpse of him through a window, or a casual telephone conversation. The events are often deceivingly inconsequential; the composite effect, devastating. As Doctor Sachs's unfolds through the pages of these engaging, humorous and heart-breaking voices, readers come to see that the doctor's empathy for his fellow creatures is both his motivating force and his own untreatable condition.

About the Author:

MARTIN WINCKLER was born in Algiers in 1955. In 1994, he quit practicing medicine to write full-time. He lives in France with his wife and children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1583222618
• ISBN 13: 9781583222614
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432