{"product_id":"9781912573080-confessions-of-a-medical-stude","title":"Confessions of a Medical Student","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA charming novel following the struggles a naive, sentimental student striving to move beyond family, self, and place in the late 1960’s.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA charming novel following the struggles a naive, sentimental student striving to move beyond family, self, and place in the late 1960’s.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConfessions of a Medical Student\u003c\/em\u003e charts 20-year-old Ben Adler's tragic-comic journey from home to med-school and the world beyond. Callow and impressionable, Ben leaves his over-anxious Russian-Jewish parents in their Toronto drugstore, and Angie, his girlfriend whom he plans to marry against his parents' wishes. In anatomy, Ben dissects his cadaver, 'Clive', with lab-mates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the first blush of med-school fades, Ben learns of his father's life-threatening illness. Cash-poor, Ben enlists in the Navy to earn room and board, joins Lenny's Underground Railroad for draft-dodgers, jeopardizing studies and provoking his ill father's scorn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel chronicles the tumultuous years 1966-1971 through the eyes of a naive, sentimental student striving to move beyond family, self, and place. Ben careens from mistake to mistake over four years, yet at the novel's end he emerges with self-knowledge and a touch of worldly pain and wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40663711088737,"sku":"9781912573080","price":18.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27609531.jpg?v=1721928821","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781912573080-confessions-of-a-medical-stude","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}