The Good Doctor

Galgut, Damon

ISBN 10: 1843542013 / ISBN 13: 9781843542018

Published by Atlantic Books, 2003

About this Item

First edition; first printing. Paperback original. SIGNED by the author to title page. Pictorial soft covers. Some creasing to spine. In dust jacket; a little rubbed to spine ends. *** Signed first edition of Damon Galgut's critically acclaimed novel which was shortlisted for the 2003 Booker Prize.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Good Doctor
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843542013
• ISBN 13: 9781843542018
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Fiction
  • Signed Literature

About this title

Synopsis

'One of the best and weirdest novels I have read in a long while... There are traces of J M Coetzee and Graham Greene but Damon Galgut is a true original.' Geoff Dyer

'A truly remarkable novel, steeped in contemporary history, yet at the same time transcending it. I was enthralled by its intensity and the immediacy of every small twist and turn of the story' André Brink

When Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting, Frank is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not - young, optimistic and full of new schemes. The two become uneasy friends, while the rest of the staff in the deserted hospital view Laurence with a mixture of awe and mistrust.
The town beyond the hospital is also coping with new arrivals, and the return of old faces. The brigadier - a self-fashioned dictator from apartheid days - is rumoured still to be alive. And down at Mama's place, a group of soldiers have moved in with their malign commandant, a man Frank has met before and is keen to avoid. Laurence wants to help - but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last.

About the Author

DAMON GALGUT was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry and The Good Doctor. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Damon Galgut lives in Cape Town.