The Tennis Partner
A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss
By Abraham Verghese; A. Verghese
(HarperCollins Publishers, Hardcover, 9780060174057, 345pp.)
Publication Date: January 1998
Other Editions of This Title: Audio Cassette - Abridged (September 1998)
Categories: Medical - General, Tennis
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Description
When a tennis ritual evolves between Dr. Abraham Verghese and his medical student David, a former professional tennis player, it rekindles the author's romance with tennis that began as a child. Their meetings on the court and in the hospital in the border city of El Paso ease the pain of Verghese's disintegrating marriage and soften his sense of alienation as a foreigner. As the friendship between the two men deepens, the bond between them deepens -- they are in turn professor and student, confessor and keeper of secrets. When David succumbs to a ghost of his past, his life is sent spiraling out of control. Forced to come to terms with David's tragic fate, Verghese gains a profound new understanding of the deepest meaning of friendship.











