Audiobook9 hours
Down from Troy
Written by Richard Selzer
Narrated by Sam Gray
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Dr. Richard Selzer, the writer and surgeon whose best-selling works have enthralled millions of literary critics and discriminating readers, returns to his boyhood in 1930s Troy, New York in this powerful memoir of medicine, dreams, and death. Down from Troy evokes the distinct character of Depression-era Troy-the sooty streets, horse-drawn hearses, saloons and brothels-and reveals how a poor boy like Selzer rose to become a professor at Yale Medical School.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not easy to stay interested but he does portray Troy aptly for that era.