Confessions of a Knife | 
| Author: Richard Selzer
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 441149
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 223
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 4.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0870136054
Dewey Decimal Number: 617.092
EAN: 9780870136054
ASIN: 0870136054
Publication Date: November 2001
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Product Description
Richard Selzer is poet laureate of surgeons in America: a superb literary stylist who explores not only the human body, but the mind and soul as well. These essays are largely autobiographical and extend deep into emotional and medical territory commonly avoided by other writers. Dr. Selzer's work has been published in New American Review, Esquire, Harper's and other periodicals. In 1975 he won the National Magazine Award for his essays.
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 Misleading November 15, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you're looking for a book about clinical medicine, or (as the title would seem to imply), surgery, please look elsewhere.
While it's obviously very well written, and even occasionally interesting, you need a college degree in literature to understand half (or more) of this book. Selzer spends far too much time trying to be Shakespeare and far too little time talking about the knife.
If you're looking to peel away layer after overbloated layer of superfluous metaphor to extract some semblance of medical relevance, then this is the book for you!
Look, it's not bad, it's just very misrepresented by its title.
 The honesty and integrity of this great man speaks volumes December 21, 1998
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
There is nothing so fragile as admitting ones frailties. Richard Selzer does this exquisitely. Always with integrity and self-reflections. Think of "Raccoon." Honestly, how would anyone except a soul of great depth understand the desperation of this patient. To be able to bring it to the level of great literature shows remarkable talent. Richard Selzer is my favorite writer beyond any doubt. I must recommend all of his other books, "Letters to a Young Doctor", "Mortal Lessons", "Down From Troy", etc. Make sure you catch "Raising the Dead" as well, which is a wonderful journalistic book. I was shocked however, to discover Cardizem ads scattered throughout. Ouch! Oh well, whatever it takes for other doctors to read and reflect cannot be all bad
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