The Tennis Partner

Abraham Verghese

£12.99

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A painfully honest book about male friendship and drug abuse, this is Abraham Verghese’s account of watching his young friend, a brilliant tennis player, destroy his life with cocaine. This book is both a tribute to him and an attempt at understanding.

ISBN: 9780099735014 Category:

Description

When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unravelling, relocates to Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at a county hospital.

There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from a 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 in each other. But when the dark beast that is David’s addiction emerges once again, almost everything Verghese has come to trust and believe in is threatened.

Compassionate and moving, The Tennis Player is an unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive.

Additional information

Weight 0.245 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.1 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

345

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

362.298092 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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