Confessions of a Medical Student

di Ronald Ruskin (Autore)

Aeon Books Ltd, 2018

A charming novel following the struggles a naive, sentimental student striving to move beyond family, self, and place in the late 1960’s. Confessions of a Medical Student charts 20-year-old Ben Adler's tragic-comic journey from home to med-school and the world beyond. Callow and impressionable, Ben leaves his over-anxious Russian-Jewish parents in their Toronto drugstore, and Angie, his girlfriend whom he plans to marry against his parents' wishes. In anatomy, Ben dissects his cadaver, 'Clive', with lab-mates. As the first blush of med-school fades, Ben learns of his father's life-threatening illness. Cash-poor, Ben enlists in the Navy to earn room and board, joins Lenny's Underground Railroad for draft-dodgers, jeopardizing studies and provoking his ill father's scorn. The novel chronicles the tumultuous years 1966-1971 through the eyes of a naive, sentimental student striving to move beyond family, self, and place. Ben careens from mistake to mistake over four years, yet at the novel's end he emerges with self-knowledge and a touch of worldly pain and wisdom.

• Autore: Ronald Ruskin
• Editore: Aeon Books Ltd
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 436 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 129 mm
• EAN: 9781912573080

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