The Doctor's Son
John O'Hara
Secrets emerge as a fearsome contagion in this long autobiographical story set in small-town Pennsylvania amid the influenza pandemic of 1918. "The Doctor's Son" concerns James "Jimmy" Malloy, a teenager on the uncertain edge of manhood, confronted by sudden death and the loss of illusions. Having worked himself to exhaustion, his father, Doctor Mike Malloy enlists "Doctor" Myers, a medical student, to treat his patients until he has recovered and fifteen-year-old Jimmy drives Myers around the county on his rounds. O'Hara's earliest account of his fraught relationship with his formidable father, this classic tale is, in the words of New York Times cultural critic Charles McGrath, "a love story, really, if a frustrated, unrequited one." It is also a fascinating record of the social effects of America's first great confrontation with a global pandemic.
کال:
2020
خپرندویه اداره:
Library of America
ژبه:
english
ISBN 10:
1598536850
ISBN 13:
9781598536850
فایل:
EPUB, 308 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2020