Bodies (Pb)

Author: Jed Mercurio

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Price : 27.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780099422839
Publisher : Vintage
Imprint : Vintage
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Weight (g) : 0.369
Publication date : 01 March 2003
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Jed Mercurio
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Description

Inside every hospital exists a world no outsider has been allowed to see, not even the idealistic young man who has come to start a career in medicine. What awaits him is a life of institutionalised cynicism, pitch black humour and visceral sex, and soon it changes him more terribly than he could ever have feared. Written by a former doctor, Bodies is a novel of almost unbearable power and intensity. It is also a moving portrait of the loss of innocence, the healing power of sexual love, and of a young man's quest for redemption in a world that's lost its sense of right and wrong. In Bodies, Jed Mercurio, the man behing the television series Cardiac Arrest, has produced an even more disturbingly authentic despatch from the frontline of hospital life. First published 2002

Reviews

"Gritty, realistic and funny."
-"Daily Mail"
"The malignant humour is relentless."
-"Daily Telegraph"

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