Cutting for Stone
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- ISBN13: 9780375714368
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a gorgeous Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural tie and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.
Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable tale of like and treachery, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.Amazon.com Review
Amazon Exclusive: John Irving Reviews Cutting for Stone
John Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times–winning once, in 1980, for the novel The World According to Garp. In 1992, Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules–a film with seven College Award nominations. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of Cutting for Stone:
That Abraham Verghese is a doctor and a writer is already customary; the miracle of this novel is how organically the two are entwined. 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 leader manages to make it take place here. The medical detail is stunning, but it never overwhelms the humane and narrative aspects of this moving and ambitious novel. 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 language from the womb! And what terrific characters–even the most minor players are agreed a full history. There is also a sense of fantastic foreboding; by the midpoint of the tale, one dreads what will further befall these characters. The foreshadowing is present in the chapter titles, too–‘The School of Suffering’ not least among them! Cutting for Stone is a remarkable achievement.–John Irving
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Please lower the fee of this book. It isn’t honest to fee a best seller from the New York Times at $9 and fee this book 20% privileged.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Pricepoint is unacceptable. Readers should fight back with tools they have… refuse to buy and one star reviews
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Worst book I have read in a long time:
-S-l-o-w plot
-Overly graphic medical descriptions
-I didn’t know or care eventually what the main character was trying to accomplish.
-The “like tale” of the adoptive parents isn’t really a like tale. Two people who work at the same place start raising twins together.
-Lacking giving away anything- It’s just terrible. Don’t waste your money
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I have not finished this book, not sure if I can. I can’t get passed that a trained nurse who is carrying twins would not know she was pregnant, and not question or scream for help when in a critical health situation. After all this woman somehow managed to get herself to a hospital traveling reasonably a long distance with blood dripping down between her legs. I cannot get passed that the surgeon who secretly likes this woman and has worked with her everyday for seven years would not check up on her immediately when she was not present in the OR. Being in the health care industry, it is appealing to read the medical terminology in the book, but makes me marvel if a casual reader would know everything. All the colorful words cannot take in up this credibility issue for me.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This is indeed an epic read, a huge tale in every way. But why the privileged fee? Because they reflect they can get it; wait for the fee to come down, then delight in.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5