THE TENNIS PARTNER by Abraham Verghese (HarperCollins, 1998)
A professor of medicine at Stanford University and most recently the acclaimed author of Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese, tells the true story of his friendship with a medical intern, David Smith, an Australian, former tennis pro and cocaine addict. Stories of treating patients in a busy urban teaching hospital in El Paso blend with fun-spirited tennis which mixes with Verghese’s own divorce and Smith’s inevitable break ups which all blend into a sad and tragic spiral into addiction. Altogether this is a moving elegy to an intense and genuine friendship between two doctors, two athletes, two smart men (8.5/10).
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