Down from Troy, Richard Selzer
Down from Troy, Richard Selzer
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Down from Troy

Author: Richard Selzer

Narrator: Sam Gray

Unabridged: 9 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/24/2011


Synopsis

Dr. Richard Selzer, the writer and surgeon whose best-selling works have enthralled millions of literary critics and discriminating readers, returns to his boyhood in 1930s Troy, New York in this powerful memoir of medicine, dreams, and death. Down from Troy evokes the distinct character of Depression-era Troy-the sooty streets, horse-drawn hearses, saloons and brothels-and reveals how a poor boy like Selzer rose to become a professor at Yale Medical School.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emma on August 12, 2022

You might have to love Troy to love reading this memoir. Selzer's prose is unabashedly floral. Somehow he toed the line (closely at times!) and stayed in my good graces, despite being self-consciously sentimental and fastidious. The tale of a mama's boy following in his father's footsteps as the goo......more

Goodreads review by Bonnie on September 15, 2018

This book was recommended to me because I had recently discovered that Troy was where my paternal family lived for three generations. Since the author covered that time period and I was about to visit Troy, I found the book interesting and informing. I appreciate the author’s wit and literary style.......more

Goodreads review by Blaize on July 29, 2021

As someone who will soon be attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, I bought this book in hopes of getting a sneak peek of the city I will soon call home. Selzer, though he lived there almost a century before I, described Troy in all its glory and splendor to a child. I only wi......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on December 31, 2013

When I read the first of Selzer's books I encountered, 'Confessions of a Knife', I noted in my review that I wouldn't read another by him unless recommended by a friend. Time perhaps makes that memory fade, as this book sounded intriguing when I found it at the book exchange at work. One of my beefs......more