bokomslag The Spirit of the Place
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The Spirit of the Place

Samuel Shem

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  • 416 sidor
  • 2012
From the bestselling author of the The House of God comes an ambitious novel about the complicated relationships between mothers and sons, doctors and patients, the past and the present, and love and death... Settled into a relationship with an Italian yoga instructor and working in Europe, Dr. Orville Rose's peace is shaken by his mother's death. On his return to Columbia, a Hudson River town of quirky people and plagued by breakage, he learns that his mother has willed him a large sum of money, her 1981 Chrysler, and her Victorian house in the center of town. There's one odd catch: he must live in her house for one year and thirteen days. As he struggles with his decisionto stay and meet the terms of the will or return to his life in ItalyOrville reconnects with family, reunites with former friends, and comes to terms with old rivals and bitter memories. In the process hell discover his own history, as well as his mothers, and finally learn what it really means to be a healer, and to be healed.
  • Författare: Samuel Shem
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780425258781
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 416
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-12-04
  • Förlag: Penguin USA