Review by annieinfante -- The Surgeon's Wife
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Review by annieinfante -- The Surgeon's Wife
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Surgeon's Wife" by William H. Coles.]
3 out of 4 stars
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I like the book because it narrates in an impartial way the problems that have some surgeries and how the need for money for an entity becomes more important than the patient's own health, all this through the eyes of the head of surgery of a hospital in New Orleans who also has love problems for his profession, professional problems thanks to his need to do things right and one other misunderstanding with colleagues.
Mike Boudreaux it's an example of interesting overcoming that falls into the emotional for putting too much thought into his work, besides having an interest in his teacher's wife and the blow of his current partner leaves him for not feeling happy by his side. Simultaneously the story of Helen Rappaport is included in the plot as a case of young addict misunderstood by her parents being one of them known from Bordeaux.
They cover interesting topics that we witness day to day such as the nonconformity with our body and the need to maintain at all costs a reputation to take care what the people say. Obesity and the lifelong effects of bariatric operations are constantly treated, and can be a criticism of the surgery branch. New Orleans' high society plays an important role in making people unhappy in a seemingly perfect world unveiled.New Orleans culture is also included,dances, sorcery, festivals and other characteristic aspects of the area are added almost as protagonists in the manuscript.
The Surgeon’s Wife is a book that can generate empathy in the reader even though its characters do not have hooking or too heroic characteristics, because they represent today's society with worries, problems that make mistakes and are really human. Perhaps it is this realism that dominates the book that makes us read it because it is easy to identify with situations that happens constantly. I wish there was a more powerful female figure and out of stereotypes because I think that a woman of high society or an addicted teenager are threshed cases in literature.
It is written correctly, however the dialogues enclosed in quotation marks are not to my liking. It has rudeness and it is preferable to be read by a mature public. It doesn't have an appreciable religious preference, they only name some typical of the area.
I rate it with three out of four stars , because I think it takes a little more substance to the story to be perfect, yet it's a good book of fiction (William H. Coles' specialty ) that mixes with pretty good alternate realities.
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3 out of 4 stars
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I like the book because it narrates in an impartial way the problems that have some surgeries and how the need for money for an entity becomes more important than the patient's own health, all this through the eyes of the head of surgery of a hospital in New Orleans who also has love problems for his profession, professional problems thanks to his need to do things right and one other misunderstanding with colleagues.
Mike Boudreaux it's an example of interesting overcoming that falls into the emotional for putting too much thought into his work, besides having an interest in his teacher's wife and the blow of his current partner leaves him for not feeling happy by his side. Simultaneously the story of Helen Rappaport is included in the plot as a case of young addict misunderstood by her parents being one of them known from Bordeaux.
They cover interesting topics that we witness day to day such as the nonconformity with our body and the need to maintain at all costs a reputation to take care what the people say. Obesity and the lifelong effects of bariatric operations are constantly treated, and can be a criticism of the surgery branch. New Orleans' high society plays an important role in making people unhappy in a seemingly perfect world unveiled.New Orleans culture is also included,dances, sorcery, festivals and other characteristic aspects of the area are added almost as protagonists in the manuscript.
The Surgeon’s Wife is a book that can generate empathy in the reader even though its characters do not have hooking or too heroic characteristics, because they represent today's society with worries, problems that make mistakes and are really human. Perhaps it is this realism that dominates the book that makes us read it because it is easy to identify with situations that happens constantly. I wish there was a more powerful female figure and out of stereotypes because I think that a woman of high society or an addicted teenager are threshed cases in literature.
It is written correctly, however the dialogues enclosed in quotation marks are not to my liking. It has rudeness and it is preferable to be read by a mature public. It doesn't have an appreciable religious preference, they only name some typical of the area.
I rate it with three out of four stars , because I think it takes a little more substance to the story to be perfect, yet it's a good book of fiction (William H. Coles' specialty ) that mixes with pretty good alternate realities.
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The Surgeon's Wife
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