Description: Item description from the seller The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese 2023 Oprah's Book Club Edition Paperback English Description About the book: The Covenant of Water Author: Abraham VergheseISBN 13: 9781804710432Language: EnglishPublished by: Grove Press PRHFormat: PaperbackYear: 2023Pages: 736Weight: 600Genre:Topic: Legends & Sagas MythsIntended Audience: Adults Young AdultsCountry of Origin About Author/s: ABRAHAM VERGHESE is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and Vice Chair of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine. He sees patients, teaches students, and writes. From 1990 to 1991, Abraham Verghese attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at The University of Iowa, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree. His first book, MY OWN COUNTRY, about AIDS in rural Tennessee, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for 1994 and was made into a movie directed by Mira Nair and starring Naveen Andrews, Marisa Tomei, Glenne Headley and others. His second book, THE TENNIS PARTNER, was a New York Times notable book and a national bestseller. His third book, CUTTING FOR STONE was an epic love story, medical story and family saga. It appeared in hardback in 2009, and is in its 9th printing and is being translated into 16 languages. It is a Vintage paperback and was on the New York Times bestseller list for over 110 weeks at this writing. His latest novel, THE COVENANT OF WATER, is forthcoming from Grove Press (May 2, 2023). Verghese has honorary degrees from five universities and has published extensively in the medical literature, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama in 2016. His writing, both non-fiction and fiction, has to do with his view of medicine as a passionate and romantic pursuit; he sees the bedside skill and ritual of examining the patient as critical, cost saving, time-honored and necessary, though it is threatened in this technological age. He coined the term the 'iPatient' to describe the phenomenon of the virtual patient in the computer becoming the object of attention to the detriment of the real patient in the bed. His is an important voice for humanism in medicine and for anticipating the unwanted consequences of new technologies before they are introduced.
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Actual ISBN: 9781804710432
Item Weight: 600
Book Title: The Covenant Of Water
Narrative Type: Fiction
Edition: Book Club Edition
Author: Verghese Abraham
Book Series: Historical
Original Language: English
Vintage: No
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Features: Dust Jacket
Topic: Help, Time Management, Personal Development, Professional Development, Hobbies, Performing Arts, Self-Help, Chemistry, Leisure, Self-Improvement, Ships, Lifestyle, Books, Popular Psychology, Clubs
Ex Libris: No
Publisher: Does Not Apply, Atlantic Books
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Ages 9-12, Adults
Publication Year: 2023
Type: Novel
Genre: Mind, Body & Spirit, Leisure, Hobbies & Lifestyle, Historical
Number of Pages: 736
