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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“THE SPIRIT OF THE PLACE is a perfect bookend to his classic THE HOUSE OF GOD.” (Diversion Magazine)
“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
“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 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.