The physician / Noah Gordon.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Barcelona : New York : Barcelona Digital Editions ; Distributed by Open Road Integrated Media, [2012]Description: 765 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781453271100
- 1453271104
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Fiction | Gordon, Noah | Available | 33111009230828 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this "rich" and "vivid" historical novel from a New York Times- bestselling author ( The New York Times ).
A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift--an acute sensitivity to impending death--never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.
Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world's most renowned physician, Avicenna. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival--medicine--makes a riveting modern classic.
The Physician is the first book in New York Times- bestselling author Noah Gordon's Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice .
Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1986.
Read by millions in thirty-two countries, soon to be a major motion picture, and voted "one of the ten most-beloved books of all time," here is the English-language edition of Noah Gordon's masterwork in eleventh-century London, a child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware "something" is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift-an acute sensitivity to impending death-never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.