"Samuel Shem is easily the finest and most important writer ever to focus on the lives of doctors and the world of medicine." -Harvard Club of NY Bulletin

Now in Bookstores from the National Bestselling
Author of THE HOUSE OF GOD

The Spirit of the Place is a novel of love and death, of mothers and sons, of doctors and patients, and, above all, of "The Spirit of the Place", a quirky small Hudson River town "plagued by breakage"--a novel filled with the ineffable "Shem-humor" and pointed insight and drama.