Doctors & Nurses
1st Edition
Published on 14. February 2013
288 pages
978-1-4088-4082-5 (ISBN)
Description
By the author of Ducks, Newburyport, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019 and the Goldsmiths Prize
'As lunatic and splenetic and distinctive as anything that will be published this year ... I begin to suspect she may be some sort of genius' Telegraph
'It is somehow hard not to be optimistic in the hands of a writer so angry and intelligent ... Doctors & Nurses is a novel bracingly alive, making more polite books cadaverous by comparison' Guardian
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...
'As lunatic and splenetic and distinctive as anything that will be published this year ... I begin to suspect she may be some sort of genius' Telegraph
'It is somehow hard not to be optimistic in the hands of a writer so angry and intelligent ... Doctors & Nurses is a novel bracingly alive, making more polite books cadaverous by comparison' Guardian
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...
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-4082-5 (9781408840825)
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Lucy Ellmann is the author of Ducks, Newburyport, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize, Goldsmiths Prize and Saltire Fiction Book of the Year Award. She was born in Illinois and dragged to England as a teenager. Her first novel, Sweet Desserts, won the Guardian Fiction Prize. It was followed by Varying Degrees of Hopelessness, Man or Mango? A Lament, Dot in the Universe, Doctors & Nurses and Mimi. She now lives in Edinburgh.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- A Rural Backwater
- The Café
- The Corridor
- Aeroplanes
- The Job Interview
- Jen's Body
- I Have a Job!
- Coelacanth & Chips
- Medically Impossible
- Vaudeville
- Roger Lewis's Body
- What's it Really Like to Have a Body?
- First-Name Terms
- Jen Surveys Her Domain
- Pandora's Boxes
- Xmas Pudding
- Football
- Catheterised Mares
- The Gorgeous Gorge
- Roger & Out
- Sharp Moments
- A Shaky Affair
- The Veil
- A Sunny Scene
- The Wedding Plans
- The Wedding-Eve Supper
- The Wedding Itself
- Civilisation
- C-Shapes
- The Wedding Night
- The Meaning of Life
- Epiphany in the Bush
- A Perfect Pig
- Back to Normal
- Insults to the Body
- A Sort of Apology
- Soft Tissues
- The Usual Suspect
- Body of Evidence
- Not Quite White (A Flashback)
- Next! (Another Flashback)
- Worthless
- A Citizen's Arrest
- Tenacious of Life
- Just Jelly
- Life!
- Footnotes
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
- eCopyright
