by Abraham Verghese (Author)
MY OWN COUNTRY is the extraordinary story of an Indian physician who settled in a rural town in Tennessee as a young doctor to AIDS patients. This is a book about illness and treatment, about how a small community reacts to the advent of AIDS, about doctor-patient relationships, the body in decline, the ritual of examination, and how Verghese, as a doctor, coped with the inevitability of death. Verghese creates, beyond the jargon of medicine, a lyrical and haunting language unique in this genre, and provides a narrative at once rich, absorbing and above all, moving.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 01 May 1995
ISBN 10: 1857992229
ISBN 13: 9781857992229
Book Overview: My Own Country does for the world of AIDS what Oliver Sacks has done for neurology An extract from My Own Country was published in Granta A remarkable book ... It reads like a fine novel but the heroes are all too real. My Own Country is far from depressing. It's full of kindness, love and courage and is, in the end, uplifting' Today A lyrical account of his five years in Tennessee - as lyrical as a person can be when dealing with such a bleak disease' The Times Dr Verghese's vulnerability and his lucid prose give this book the emotional momentum of a good novel' Vanity Fair
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