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Original Title:	The Tennis Partner
ISBN:	0060931132 (ISBN13: 9780060931131)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	El Paso, Texas(United States)

The Tennis Partner Paperback | Pages: 345 pages

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Title	:	The Tennis Partner
Author	:	Abraham Verghese
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 345 pages
Published	:	September 22nd 1999 by Harper Perennial (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Health. Medicine. Biography

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An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone.

When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from drug addiction, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them to shed their inhibitions and find security in the sport they love and with each other. This friendship between doctor and intern grows increasingly rich and complex, more intimate than two men usually allow. Just when it seems nothing can go wrong, the dark beast from David’s past emerges once again—and almost everything Verghese has come to trust and believe in is threatened as David spirals out of control.

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The Tennis Partner describes the autobiographical story of the friendship between Verghese and one of his medical students in El Paso, Texas, in the early 1990s. When David Smith met Dr. Verghese, he was a medical student trying to finish his degree and obtaining an internship, but before he started his studies he was a tennis player on the college tour. Verghese had always been a keen tennis player but had not had much time to play. When the two men discovered their shared interest they started

This story follows on from My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by the same author and tells the true story of a friendship he develops with a medical student, David. The friendship starts with a mutual love for tennis but then the two become more reliant on each other as Verghese moves out of his family home and David struggles with the pressures of his internship and some challenging relationships.Verghese writes with an effortless style. It is so easy to read his work and it really doesn't feel

I loved this book and return to it periodically. It's on my "gift reading list" for any addiction counselors, psychiatrists, internists that I know because it provides such a dynamic, rich, narrative process for thinking about how people survive and don't survive traumatic experiences like becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol. It shows scene by scene and moment by moment how a life can be broken and pieced together if someone can believe enough.

When I picked up and read the summary of THE TENNIS PARTNER, it intrigued me. What I didn't realize at that time was that it was a work of nonfiction. Only when the main character in the book mentioned his full name -- which happened to be the same as the author -- did I realize that it was an autobiographical memoir. I typically prefer reading fiction books to nonfiction, but I continued with it nonetheless. The story is about an Indian doctor (Dr. Abraham Verghese) whose sole focus has been on

When I saw that Abraham Verghese had written a book that had "tennis" in the title, I knew that I had to read it. I am a "club" player myself, and I enjoy reading about someone who loves the game. The book, however, really isn't about tennis, it's about the relationship that is borne from regular tennis games between the author and David Smith. The friendship that develops between Abraham and David is told with a striking vulnerability in the context of the intensity of the daily routine in a

This is a warm but heartbreaking, even at times harrowing, exploration of friendship. Dr Verghese has opened his life and soul to his readers in order to tell the story of his complicated friendship with David, a deeply troubled intern assigned to Verghese's internal medicine dept in an El Paso, TX hospital. Although Verghese is ostensibly the mentor and superior of the two, the balance switches as David, a former pro-circuit tennis player, becomes the teacher when they discover a shared passion

Verghese is a wonderful, thoughtful writer. While I did not find this book as engaging as his novel (Cutting for Stone) or his earlier memoir of being a foreign doctor in rural America as the AIDS epidemic hit (My Own Country), his is a mind always worth spending time with. How he writes these beautiful books while maintaining a powerhouse career in academic medicine blows me away. His compassionate observation is the common thread between the doctor and the writer. This sad book deals with a