

- Physicians, Medical students, Medical education, Fiction
Writing with all the passion of *Love Story* and power of *The Class*, Erich Segal sweeps us into the lives of the Harvard Medical School's class of 1962. His stunning novel reveals the making of doctors--what makes them tick, scheme, hurt . . . and love.
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Classical in form, earnest, overwhelming and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Erich Segal
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 679
- Publisher
- Bantam Books, Bantam, Grasset & Fasquelle
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- French, Korean, tur, English
- ISBN
- 9780553278118
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