Richard Selzer

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1986
  • Latest Book:
    July 2009
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Book List in Order: 9 titles

  • Taking the World in for Repairs

  • Imagine a Woman and Other Tales

  • Letters to a Young Doctor

    A timeless collection of advice, operating-room wisdom, and reflections on the practice of medicine, from the “best of the writing surgeons” (Chicago Tribune).   “Richard Selzer does for medicine what Jacques Cousteau does for the sea,” ...

  • Imagine a Woman

    A widow becomes obsessed with the desire to once again hear her dead husband's heart, which has been harvested and transplanted into the body of another man ("Whither Thou Goest"). A mother descends into a cave in search of her autistic son, who ...

  • The Doctor Stories

    The Doctor Stories is Richard Selzer's selection of his own short stories, culled from three decades of writing, along with two new stories and an introduction detailing his literary beginnings. Drawing from his classic books, Selzer portrays the int...

  • Rituals of Surgery

    Selzer's first collection of short stories (originally published in 1974) weaves together the fantastic and grotesque with surgical precision. The sense that death lurks around every corner is heightened by dark irony and wit. He brings to light ...

  • Whistlers' Room

    Richard Selzer traded in his scalpel for a pen over fifteen years ago, but the precision and exacting intellect of his medical background carried over into his prose, giving us stories and essays devoid of sentimentality, marked by careful attention ...

  • Knife Song Korea

    A tumultuous year in the life of a young surgeon during the Korean War.

    Knife Song Korea chronicles a tumultuous year in the life of Sloane, a young surgeon in the Korean War. Drafted into the army and assigned to an artillery unit in a remote...

  • Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery

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    In this collection of nineteen unforgettable essays, Dr. Selzer describes unsparingly the surgeonâ,"s art. Both moving and perversely funny, Mortal Lessons is an established classic that considers not only the workings and misworkings of the hum...



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Richard Selzer has published 9 books.

Richard Selzer does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Knife Song Korea, was published in July 2009.

The first book by Richard Selzer, Taking the World in for Repairs, was published in September 1986.

No. Richard Selzer does not write books in series.
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