Notes of an anatomist - Softcover

Gonzalez-Crussi, F

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0151672857 ISBN 13: 9780151672851

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985

Synopsis

New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1985. Hardbound, about 8.5 inches tall, 134 pages. 'The characters who people these elegant and stylish essays are marvelous indeed. In the solitude of his study, Dr F Gonzalez-Crussi, a practicing pathologist, ponders the meaning of the lives laid bare in his laboratory. Hungarian sisters, conjoined Siamese twins show up at a Victorian hospital emergency room. One is manifestly pregnant; both stoutly claim virginity. The postmortem of a giant lumberjack, a pound of shotgun pellets embedded in his carcass, reveals a body tattooed in the entirely with winged serpents, floral motifs, and the Canadian maple leaf. He had been felled by a tapeworm three millimeters long. More.

About this title

About the Author:

González-Crussi is Professor emeritus of pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the author of The Five Senses, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and Notes of an Anatomist, winner of the nonfiction first prize of the Society for Midland Authors. He lives in Chicago.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0151672857
• ISBN 13: 9780151672851
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 134