Doctors and Nurses - Softcover

Ellman, Lucy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747585806 ISBN 13: 9780747585800

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2007

Synopsis

The tranquillity of a rural backwater - SHATTERED! The ancient arts of medicine - EXPOSED! Her darling cleft-chinned doctor - FORCED TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE! It was a time of wiping. A time of bandaging. Of patients and their incessant needs. In a world where nurses never wash their hands, and doctors are the lowest of the low, one enormous nurse stands up for LOVE - a nurse that will make you fart with fear...

About this title

About the Author:

Lucy Ellmann was born in America and moved to Britain when she was thirteen. Her previous novels are Sweet Desserts (which won the Guardian Fiction Prize), Varying Degrees of Hopelessness, Man or Mango? and Dot in the Universe. Lucy Ellmann lives in Edinburgh.

From Publishers Weekly:

What bizarre comic riffs can the incomparable Ellmann spin from a romantic medical mismatch? Breathtakingly brutal ones, as per usual, for the author of Man or Mango, but also bright, direct and playful—and full of CAPS. After Ellmann's enormous nurse, Jen, takes a job in "A RURAL BACKWATER" of Great Britain with general practitioner Dr. Roger Lewis, her every move is chronicled in excruciating, digressive, sidesplitting detail. ("THE JOB INTERVIEW ITSELF" is followed by "JEN'S BODY," which is followed by "WHAT'S IT REALLY LIKE TO HAVE A BODY?") Jen's obesity is mercilessly harped- on throughout, as are her oversized appetites for food, sex, violence and her handsome new employer—who is married, with children. Roger, who is more than game, happily scams patients and shrugs off lawsuit-worthy mistakes, quickly winning Jen's wicked heart. Their unlikely affair, complicated by annoying patients ("their frequent need to DIE or have BABIES") and Roger's sexual indiscretions, accommodates biting observations on the state of contemporary medicine and romance. Graphic medically and sexually, Ellmann's latest is not for the squeamish, but it's a hilarious exaggeration of a profession's foibles. (Mar.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0747585806
• ISBN 13: 9780747585800
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224