Richard Selzer, Author Penguin Books $12 (128p) ISBN 978-0-14-023489-3
The former surgeon recalls his own near-death experience after being diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease and lapsing into a coma. (Aug.)
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Richard Selzer, Author William Morrow & Company $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06489-1
These 12 essays (some cast as ""stories'') seem to have grown easily and naturally out of Selzer's professional life as a professor of surgery at Yale; as a teacher of writing, also at Yale; as the author of bestsellers, Mortal Lessons among them....
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Richard Selzer, Author Random House (NY) $18.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-394-58535-2
In his previous works, both fiction ( Rituals of Surgery ) and nonfiction ( Taking the World in for Repairs ) surgeon Selzer has proved a perceptive observer of the psychological pressures caused by illness and of a physician's response to the...
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Richard Selzer, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (300p) ISBN 978-0-688-09715-8
With a physician's eye and an artist's vision, Selzer ( Confessions of a Knife ) traces the arc of his life from his 1930s childhood in Troy, N.Y., through his medical training and career as a surgeon in New Haven, Conn., to his retirement in 1985....
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Richard Selzer, Author Back Bay Books $10.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-78065-0
With a physician's eye and an artist's vision, surgeon-turned-writer Selzer traces the arc of his life from his 1930s childhood in Troy, N.Y., through his medical training and surgical career to his retirement. (Sept.)
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Richard Selzer, Author Viking Books $17.5 (128p) ISBN 978-0-670-85414-1
In 1991 surgeon Selzer ( Mortal Lessons ), stricken with Legionnaires' disease, was in a coma for 23 days and nearly died. Here he recalls ``the extravaganza of death'' in a way that is at once odd, funny and moving, written in an abstract, detached
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Richard Selzer, Author Picador USA $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-18687-6
Only two stories in this collection of 27 tales and essays are new, but they and the lengthy introduction offer a good sampling of both the strengths and flaws of Selzer's prose. The tone is set in the discursive, self-conscious introduction when...
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