They fall in love as they study for their exams, face moral dilemmas as they split open cadavers, confront police who rough up their patients, and treat schizophrenics with pathologies similar to their own. Winner of the prestigious Giller Prize, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures marks the arrival of a deeply humane and preternaturally gifted writer/5(26). · Bloodletting Miraculous Cures is a solid collection of short stories by Vincent Lam, a practicing doctor in Toronto. Set in his hometown, the stories feel more like chapters in a loosely told novel, revolving around four Toronto doctors, than a standard short story collection/5 (5).Number of Pages: Bloodletting Miraculous Cures welcomes readers into a world where the most mundane events can quickly become life or death. By following four young medical students and physicians – Ming, Fitz, Sri and Chen – this debut collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam is a riveting, eye-opening account of what it means to be a doctor.
Last fall, the literary keystone of Weinstein Books' debut list, Bloodletting Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam was launched to great critical acclaim and extensive media coverage. Inspired by Lam's own experiences as a practicing emergency physician, Bloodletting Miraculous Cures is "a balancing act [that] never stops," (Newsweek) beautifully and skillfully chronicling the lives of. Few first books are fortunate enough to receive both high praise and big awards, but Vincent Lam's Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures deserves the attention. Celebrated by critics and awarded one of Canada's top literary prizes, Bloodletting is a masterful, smart and engaging debut collection of short stories. Part-time writer and full-time emergency-room physician in Toronto, Vincent Lam. Dr. Vincent Lam was born in London, Ontario, and studied medicine in Toronto where he is now an emergency physician. Bloodletting Miraculous Cures was awarded the Giller Prize for fiction, making him the youngest writer ever to have won the prize.
ith their scalpel-sharp prose and unflinching gaze, the stories in Bloodletting Miraculous Cures introduce a powerful new voice in Canadian fiction. In Bloodletting Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam holds in delicate and skillful tension black humour, investigations of both common and extraordinary moral dilemmas, and a sometimes shockingly realistic and matter-of-fact portrait of today's medical profession. Bloodletting Miraculous Cures.: Vincent Lam. Weinstein Books, Sep 4, - Fiction - pages. 32 Reviews. Bloodletting Miraculous Cures welcomes readers into a world where the most mundane. In Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, Vincent Lam holds in delicate and skillful tension black humour, investigations of both common and extraordinary moral dilemmas, and a sometimes shockingly realistic and matter-of-fact portrait of today's medical profession.
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