Surgeon Stories

This is among the best collections of stories I've encountered over the last decade or so fiercely dramatic, immaculately composed, and so moving that even the most hardened heart must tremble. Treat yourself to the great beauty of Surgeon Stories. -Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried and July, July With an insider's view of the medical profession, Daly Walker writes engaging stories, which often reveal their doctor protagonists to be just as flawed and human as their patients. The result is an eye-opening collection of stories. -Billy Collins Riveting and beautiful! With this collection of linked stories about the lives of surgeons, Daly Walker joins the ranks of other great doctor-writers Anton Chekhov, William Carlos Williams, Walker Percy, Ethan Canin who understand the frailties of the human heart as well as they do the human body. His prose is as artful and precise as a surgeon's scalpel, and his skill is, more importantly, always in service of narratives that reveal not only his characters fierce, frequently ambivalent devotion to their medical vocations but also their rich, unsentimental, and deeply conflicted inner lives. -K.L. Cook, author of Last Call and Love Songs for the Quarantined Daly Walker has written a heartfelt book from deep experience. -Thomas McGuane, author of Driving on the Rim Crafted in language crisp and precise, Surgeon Stories delivers the kind of quiet tragedies that reaffirm the redemptive power of storytelling. -John Pipkin, author of Woodsburner