Perfect Bookend to the HOUSE OF GOD
December 27th 2009 | in What People Are Saying“THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE is a perfect bookend to his classic THE HOUSE OF GOD.” (Diversion Magazine)
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James Carroll Quote
December 21st 2009 | in What People Are Saying“Written with a large heart, a healing touch, wry and wise insight into the human condition.Worthy of the Best of Samuel Shem, which is worthy indeed.” – James Carroll, National Book Award Winner and author of House of War
Harvard Club of NY Bulletin Quote
December 21st 2009 | in What People Are Saying“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
The Spirit of the Place
December 21st 2009 | in What People Are SayingThe 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.
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