Confessions of a Knife, Richard Selzer
Confessions of a Knife, Richard Selzer
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Confessions of a Knife

Author: Richard Selzer

Narrator: Sam Gray

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/08/2011

Categories: Nonfiction, Medical


Synopsis

A professor of surgery and writing at Yale, Selzer opens windows on the world of medical oddities in this collection of candid, introspective essays. His subjects are sometimes grisly but always offer tantalizing insights. Selections including Sarcophagus, Pages from a Wound-Dresser's Diary, and Love Sick reveal Selzer's boundless curiosity about medicine, life, and art.

Reviews

I read this a long, long time ago (maybe in the 1980s) and I have never forgotten it. I have forgotten many books I've read. That this one hangs with me.... well, it makes me want to hunt it down and read it again. In the meantime, I'm giving it 5 stars for its longevity in my memory.......more

Goodreads review by Blake

I first read Richard Selzer years ago, in college, and really liked him. I remember appreciating a cold... well, surgical style to his prose. This time around, it was more of a mixed bag. On the one hand, I actually found his prose to be a little too cute and self-conscious for my taste, a far cry fr......more

Goodreads review by Kelly

Selzer is one of my favorite writers, and this collection doesn’t disappoint. It’s an eclectic mix of stories about his medical practice, boyhood reflections, fiction, medical history, and some other essay types thrown in, all with his remarkable ear for language, powers of observation, wit, and hum......more