The tennis partner

Title:

The tennis partner

Author:

Verghese, Abraham, 1955- author.

Summary:

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. -- Amazon.

General Note:

Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more.

Physical Description:

345, 10 pages ; 21 cm

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Personal Subject:

Verghese, Abraham, 1955-

Subject Term:

Physicians -- Biography.

Tennis.

Drug addiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Publisher:

HarperPerennial,

Publication Date:

2011

1998

ISBN:

9780062116390

Publication Information:

New York : HarperPerennial, 2011.

Call Number:

926 VERGHESE

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Summary

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick.

"Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend lost."--The Boston Globe

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.

Author Notes

Abraham Verghese was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1955. He received an M.D. from Madras University, India, in 1979 and came to the U.S a year later to do a residency in Tennessee. He also earned an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1991.

Verghese has been involved mainly in medical research and teaching. His specialties include internal medicine, pulmonary diseases, geriatrics, and infectious diseases; the latter has led to an interest in AIDS, which has been the subject of much of his writing. Verghese's thesis was a collection of stories about AIDS, and he then went on to write My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS. My Own Country received the Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction and was selected by Time as one of the top five books of 1994.

Verghese is also the author of The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss, and his short stories, articles, and reviews have appeared in magazines and newspapers such as North American Review, Sports Illustrated, and MD.

Verghese, who is divorced, has two children, Steven and Jacob and resides in El Paso, Tex.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

Verghese's award-winning My Own Country was a stunning introduction to this compassionate and lyrical writer. In The Tennis Partner, we follow the author to his new home in Texas, where he beautifully crafts his failing marriage, his new life as a medical school professor, and his deepening friendship with an Australian student who was studying medicine but who played tennis in college and later as a pro. David Smith helps Verghese through the debris of his failed marriage, reintroduces him to tennis, and eventually pulls him back from the chasm of loneliness. Unfortunately, Smith cannot escape the cocaine addiction that affected the men's relationship. An unabridged recording would be preferable, but this program, read by the author, is recommended for all libraries.Theresa Connors, Arkansas Tech Univ., Russellville (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.