![]() ![]() ![]() There is also a sense of great foreboding by the midpoint of the story, one dreads what will further befall these characters. This is a first-person narration where the first-person voice appears to disappear, but never entirely only in the beginning are we aware that the voice addressing us is speaking from the womb! And what terrific characters-even the most minor players are given a full history. The medical detail is stunning, but it never overwhelms the humane and narrative aspects of this moving and ambitious novel. I’ve not read a novel wherein medicine, the practice of it, is made as germane to the storytelling process, to the overall narrative, as the author manages to make it happen here. That Abraham Verghese is a doctor and a writer is already established the miracle of this novel is how organically the two are entwined. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of Cutting for Stone: In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules-a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times-winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. Amazon Exclusive: John Irving Reviews Cutting for Stone ![]()
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