Matters of Choice
Published on 5. June 2012
448 pages
978-1-4532-6376-1 (ISBN)
Description
A woman physician confronts the moral issues of her time in the third novel in the
New York Times-bestselling author's historical medical trilogy.
Roberta Jeanne d'Arc Cole is favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital. She is married to a surgeon. They own a trophy residence on historic Brattle Street in Cambridge and a summer house in the Berkshire Hills.
Everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an abortion clinic cost her the hospital appointment. Her marriage fails. Crushed, she goes to the farmhouse in Western Massachusetts, thinking to sell it, and finds an unexpected life. How she continues to fight for every woman's right to choose, while acknowledging her own ticking clock and maternal yearning, makes this prize-winning third story of the Cole trilogy as relevant as tomorrow.
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Noah Gordon has had outstanding international success
. The Physician, soon to be a motion picture, has been called a modern classic, and booksellers at the Madrid Book Fair voted it "one of the 10 best-loved books of all time."
Shaman was awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. Both of these books, and five of the author's other novels-
The Rabbi, The Death Committee, The Jerusalem Diamond, Matters of Choice, and
The Winemaker-are published in digital formats byOpen Road Integrated Media. Gordon's novel,
The Last Jew, will also be published digitally in the near future. He lives outside of Boston with his wife, Lorraine Gordon.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Part One: The Throwback
- 1 An Appointment
- 2 The House on Brattle Street
- 3 Betts
- 4 Moment of Decision
- 5 An Invitation to the Ball
- 6 The Contender
- 7 Voices
- 8 A Jury of Peers
- 9 Woodfield
- 10 Neighbors
- 11 The Calling
- 12 A Brush with the Law
- 13 The Different Path
- 14 The Last Cowgirl
- Part Two: The House on the Verge
- 15 Metamorphosis
- 16 Office Hours
- 17 David Markus
- 18 A Feline Intimacy
- 19 The House on the Verge
- 20 Snapshots
- 21 Finding Her Way
- 22 The Singers
- 23 A Gift to be Used
- 24 New Friends
- 25 Settling In
- 26 Above the Snow Line
- 27 The Season of Cold
- 28 Rising Sap
- Part Three: Heartrocks
- 29 Sarah's Request
- 30 A Small Trip
- 31 A Ride Down the Mountain
- 32 The Ice Cube
- 33 Inheritances
- 34 Winter Nights
- 35 Hidden Meanings
- 36 On the Trail
- 37 One More Bridge to Cross
- 38 The Reunion
- 39 A Naming
- 40 What Agunah Feared
- 41 Kindred Spirits
- 42 The Ex-Major
- 43 The Red Pickup
- 44 Early Concert
- Part Four: The Country Doctor
- 45 The Breakfast Tale
- 46 Kidron
- 47 Settling In
- 48 The Fossil
- 49 Invitations
- 50 The Three of Them
- 51 A Question Is Answered
- 52 The Calling Card
- 53 Sunshine and Shadows
- 54 The Sowing
- 55 Coming of Snow
- 56 Discoveries
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
