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The Good Doctor Paperback - 2004
by Galgut, Damon
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A taut, intense tale of the dashed hopes of the post-apartheid era and the small betrayals that doom a friendship, "The Good Doctor" is an extraordinary parable of the corruption of the flesh and spirit. 224 pp
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Details
- Title The Good Doctor
- Author Galgut, Damon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 215
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Grove Press, New York
- Date 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0802141692I3N10
- ISBN 9780802141699 / 0802141692
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.26 x 5.52 x 0.6 in (20.98 x 14.02 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southern Africa
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003060150
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the publisher
First line
The first time I saw him I thought, he won't last.
From the jacket flap
When Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting in a former homeland of the new South Africa, Frank, a fellow doctor there, is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not - young, optimistic, and full of new schemes. The two become uneasy friends, while the rest of the meagre staff in the deserted hospital view Laurence with a mixture of awe and mistrust.
The tired, ghostly town beyond the hospital is also coping with new arrivals, and the return of old faces. The Brigadier, a self-fashioned dictator from apartheid days, is rumoured to be still alive. And down at Mama's Place, the town's only watering hole, a group of soldiers have moved in with their malign commandant, a man Frank has met before and is keen to avoid for his own dark reasons. Laurence wants to help - but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last.
The tired, ghostly town beyond the hospital is also coping with new arrivals, and the return of old faces. The Brigadier, a self-fashioned dictator from apartheid days, is rumoured to be still alive. And down at Mama's Place, the town's only watering hole, a group of soldiers have moved in with their malign commandant, a man Frank has met before and is keen to avoid for his own dark reasons. Laurence wants to help - but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last.
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Citations
- Kliatt, 01/01/2005, Page 13