false <![CDATA[Love and Modern Medicine: Stories]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179354158m/907515.jpg 907515 1 The New York Times has described Perri Klass's short stories as "subtly astonishing and very funny. Klass writes stories that sound true. She's a medical school graduate, a passionate traveler, a mother, a writer. Her preoccupations come forth in her stories. She has plenty to say about love in a science-drunk world, how the brain works, and the heart. And how the sparks fly when the two collide." Sparks fly again in her new collection, LOVE AND MODERN MEDICINE, a literary tapesty of the beauties and terrors of contemporary domesticity.<BR> Instantly recognizable, the appealing characters in these stories are the able sort who can cope with any crisis at work but are often undone by the complexities of life at home. They are parents, doctors, patients, friends, and lovers, who encounter one another in sickness and in health, for better or for worse, in a world in which professional expertise -- even the finest medical expertise -- cannot always ward off threats to everyday happiness.<BR> In "Freedom Fighter," a pregnant obstetrician steals a getaway weekend with an old friend among the outlet malls of northern New England. A fruit-fly geneticist in "The Trouble with Sophie" struggles to contend with her daughter's jargon-spouting kindergarten teacher. In "Intimacy," a high school biology teacher, exhausted by new motherhood, listens bleary-eyed to the details of her coworker's "intimacy counseling" with her latest boyfriend. And in "Necessary Risks," an anesthesiologist balks at spending two weeks alone with her energetic and precocious four-year-old. Including three O. Henry Award -- winning stories, LOVE AND MODERN MEDICINE is full of small wonders and large satisfactions. 892654 1 5 2001 Love and Modern Medicine: Stories total:23|5:4|4:7|3:10|2:2| 23 82 28 3 3 0 false false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 09 03:59:28 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 12:22:16 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 13:47:39 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 12:39:02 -0700 2007 The stories are fun to read, but they are way too similar. It's the same wife, the same best friend, the same three story house, and all of the stories end in a non -conclusive, glimpse of another person's life sort of way.
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