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Physical: An American Checkup von James McManus (2005, Compact Disc, ungekürzt-
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Artikelmerkmale
- Artikelzustand
- Features
- Unabridged
- ISBN
- 9781593978730
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Physical : an American Checkup
- Publisher
- Macmillan Audio
- Genre
- Health & Fitness
- Topic
- Health Care Issues, General
Über dieses Produkt
Product Information
A wild ride through the dark heart of American health and health care, plus sex, drugs, and stem-cell wars. PHYSICAL is the story of a hard-living, happily married, middle-aged American (the author) who gets a three-day "executive checkup" at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality, not to mention glove-wearing doctors and the pair of dominatrix-esque technicians who supervise his stress test quite strictly. James McManus must understand his revised actuarial odds in the light of his not-so-long-lived forebears and the fact that his youngest children are only six and five years old. He has to survive his own cardiovascular system, inherited habits, and genetic handicaps long enough to see Bea and Grace into adulthood. But with so much at stake, and in spite of his terror of death, he may not have the willpower to follow the Mayo clinicians' advice. On a related health front, McManus's twenty-nine-year-old daughter, Bridget, has lived with juvenile diabetes since she was four, and the Bush Administration's opposition to the stem-cell research that could save her life makes him feel like he "might have to do something rash." Meanwhile, should he have a vasectomy? Or try for another child, having lost his only son? How much longer will he be able to perform such manly feats without Viagra? Is his grateful wife sleeping with the brilliant opthalmological surgeon who saved their daughter's vision? PHYSICAL negotiates the political and medical forks in the labyrinth of our health care system and calls for sanity and enlightenment in the stem-cell research wars. It's a no-holds-barred, wrenching, often hilarious portrait of the looming mortality of a privileged generation that can't believe the party's winding down, if not over.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
ISBN-10
1593978731
ISBN-13
9781593978730
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48245875
Product Key Features
Book Title
Physical : an American Checkup
Topic
Health Care Issues, General
Publication Year
2005
Language
English
Genre
Health & Fitness
Format
Compact Disc
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8in.
Item Length
5.7in.
Item Width
5.2in.
Item Weight
6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Praise for "Positively Fifth Street: "Irresistible . . . His prose is flashy, funny, and unexpectedly erudite . . . the writer's equivalent of a royal flush." --"Time "Exhilarating . . . As tension-packed as any thriller . . . A great story. James McManus bet big and won." --"The New York Times Book Review (cover review) "Astounding . . . Wildly entertaining." --"Men's Journal " "An engaging portrait of the tournament from the inside. It's made all the more effective by the author's own reading. His voice has a touch of weariness that helps color passages about the almost endless hours at the poker table. Because McManus is a novelist, he has a strong sense of pacing. And because he is a poet, he is adept at effective word choice. Both are especially effective in the audio version of his book." --"AudioFile magazine "Highly rewarding, an entertaining, informative and dramatic yarn, full of twists and turns and sweaty palms, read all the more convincingly by an author who's not just acting the part." --"Dallas Morning News, Praise forPositively Fifth Street: "Irresistible . . . His prose is flashy, funny, and unexpectedly erudite . . . the writer's equivalent of a royal flush." --Time "Exhilarating . . . As tension-packed as any thriller . . . A great story. James McManus bet big and won." --The New York Times Book Review(cover review) "Astounding . . . Wildly entertaining." --Men's Journal Â"An engaging portrait of the tournament from the inside. It's made all the more effective by the author's own reading. His voice has a touch of weariness that helps color passages about the almost endless hours at the poker table. Because McManus is a novelist, he has a strong sense of pacing. And because he is a poet, he is adept at effective word choice. Both are especially effective in the audio version of his book.Â" Â--AudioFilemagazine Â"Highly rewarding, an entertaining, informative and dramatic yarn, full of twists and turns and sweaty palms, read all the more convincingly by an author who's not just acting the part.Â" Â--Dallas Morning News, Praise for Positively Fifth Street: "Irresistible . . . His prose is flashy, funny, and unexpectedly erudite . . . the writer's equivalent of a royal flush." -- Time "Exhilarating . . . As tension-packed as any thriller . . . A great story. James McManus bet big and won." -- The New York Times Book Review (cover review) "Astounding . . . Wildly entertaining." -- Men's Journal "An engaging portrait of the tournament from the inside. It's made all the more effective by the author's own reading. His voice has a touch of weariness that helps color passages about the almost endless hours at the poker table. Because McManus is a novelist, he has a strong sense of pacing. And because he is a poet, he is adept at effective word choice. Both are especially effective in the audio version of his book." -- AudioFile magazine "Highly rewarding, an entertaining, informative and dramatic yarn, full of twists and turns and sweaty palms, read all the more convincingly by an author who's not just acting the part." -- Dallas Morning News
Dewey Edition
22
Number of Volumes
6 Vols.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
362.1/0973
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
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