The Tennis Partner, Abraham Verghese
The Tennis Partner, Abraham Verghese
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The Tennis Partner
A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss

Author: Abraham Verghese

Narrator: Neil Shah

Unabridged: 13 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 02/27/2024

Synopsis

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.“Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend lost.”—The Boston GlobeWhen Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from drug addiction, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them to shed their inhibitions and find security in the sport they love and with each other. This friendship between doctor and intern grows increasingly rich and complex, more intimate than two men usually allow. Just when it seems nothing can go wrong, the dark beast from David’s past emerges once again—and almost everything Verghese has come to trust and believe in is threatened as David spirals out of control.

About Abraham Verghese

A practicing physician and a professor of medicine at Stanford University, Abraham Verghese is the author of My Own Country and Cutting for Stone. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and other publications. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on March 15, 2019

A whole lot of people have read and loved Cutting for Stone. It has 314,679 Goodreads ratings, 51% of which were five stars. Many fewer (5,100) have rated this earlier Verghese book. That's unfortunate. (Not the popularity of Cutting for Stone, rather the fact this fascinating memoir remains largely......more

Goodreads review by Julie on March 22, 2013

I had a hard time rating this book. For readability of prose, it was a "five." I loved his writing style and storytelling ability. But I think my position as a recovering alcoholic may have colored my view of the substance of how he treated his friendship with David as well as David's relapse. I was......more

Goodreads review by Jack on January 09, 2011

A deeply disturbing, often fascinating memoir, one that reads more like a novel. The author befriends an intern in a busy El Paso hospital; the two become tennis buddies and friends. Each has their individual agonies. Verghese is separated from his wife, and trying to reconcile his new life with his......more

Goodreads review by Anjana on August 15, 2012

I thought I was sick of navel-gazing confessionals from self-absorbed physicians who think that the entire world is dying to know about the ins and outs of medical life. But a former anatomy tutor of mine with a penchant for latin and greek put it in my mailbox. how could i not read it? What I learn......more

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