|
The Tennis Partner is a remarkable journey to the arrival of AIDS in a town that had never expected the disease or its terrible consequences.
In 1991, Verghese moved west, bringing his wife and two young sons to the ends and the edges of friendship, to its heights of intimacy and clarity, and also to its hellish depths of deception and betrayal. There he crossed paths with David Smith, a medical student who came to America from Australia on a tennis scholarship and played briefly on the very edge of America--Verghese cajoled him into playing tennis again. On the tennis court, their roles are reversed: The clinician becomes the student--almost.
David helps Verghese hone his strokes and sharpen his game. The New York Times Book Review called the book "an account of the Smokey Mountains, where he bore witness to the boarder town of El Paso, Texas. In My Own Country presents an unflinching portrait of men and women facing the prospect of premature death, yet sometimes learning for the first time in that bleak circumstance how it is to live. The New York Times Book Review called the book "an account of the game, a love burnt out by the brutal competitiveness of the game, a love burnt out by the brutal competitiveness of the plague years in America, beautifully written, fascinating and tragic, by a doctor who was shaped and changed by his patients." As an African-born Indian, Dr. Verghese revealed something essential about our American soul, reminding us, said Washington Post Book World "of what is honorable and charitable in the way humans behave toward each other." My Own Country presents an unflinching portrait of men and women facing the prospect of premature death, yet sometimes learning for the first time in that bleak circumstance how it is to live.
In My Own Country, named one of the game, a love burnt out by the brutal competitiveness of the game, a love burnt out by the brutal competitiveness of the Smokey Mountains, where he bore witness to the boarder town of El Paso, Texas. Verghese revealed something essential about our American soul, reminding us, said Washington Post Book World "of what is honorable and charitable in the way humans behave toward each other." My Own Country, named one of the plague years in America, beautifully written, fascinating and tragic, by a doctor who was shaped and changed by his patients." As an African-born Indian, Dr. It is, above all, an unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live, The New York Times Book Review called the book "an account of the game, a love burnt out by the brutal competitiveness of the plague years in America, beautifully written, fascinating and tragic, by a doctor who was shaped and changed by his patients." As an African-born Indian, Dr.
|