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The Good Doctor: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE
Damon Galgut
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Description for The Good Doctor: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE
Paperback. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 156.
FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa
Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting full of optimism. Frank, the disgruntled deputy, is forced to share his room with the new arrival but is determined to stay out of Laurence's ambitious schemes. When the dilapidated hospital is looted, the two men find themselves uneasy allies in a world where the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782396246
SKU
9781782396246
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About Damon Galgut
Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season, when he was seventeen. His other books include Small Circle of Beings, The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs, The Quarry, The Good Doctor, The Impostor and In A Strange Room. The Good Doctor was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and ... Read more
Reviews for The Good Doctor: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE
'The bold, fresh voice of South African fiction'
Observer
'A latter day Heart of Darkness'
Michael Arditti
Daily Mail
'His sentences have such hypnotic power that once started, this novel is very hard to put down'
Russell Celyn Jones
The Times
'A lovely, lethal, disturbing novel'
Christopher Hope
Guardian
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Observer
'A latter day Heart of Darkness'
Michael Arditti
Daily Mail
'His sentences have such hypnotic power that once started, this novel is very hard to put down'
Russell Celyn Jones
The Times
'A lovely, lethal, disturbing novel'
Christopher Hope
Guardian
... Read more