The awkward child of a famous physician and a beautiful ballerina, Jane Guy journeys to Indonesia to attend medical school at a teaching facility that uses psychological abuse to motivate its students, and finds her only solace in Keefer, a fellow student who keeps a captive shark as a pet. 11,000 first printing.
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From the Publisher:
Described as "brilliant" and "mesmerizing," Audrey Schulman's debut novel, The Cage, revealed a talent as dazzling as the arctic landscape she so compellingly evoked. In her long-awaited follow-up, Schulman turns her darkly sensual eye on another exotic locale -a tropical Indonesian island-in a powerful and disturbing novel of a young woman's awakening.
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I grew up in a family of 3 pathologists. Dinner conversation in my family is commonly focused on exotic parasites, badly-stained biopsies, or awkward moments in the morgue fridge. These dinner conversations created in me a lifelong fascination with what it would be like to become a doctor. Swimming with Jonah
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- PublisherWilliam Morrow
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0380976862
- ISBN 13 9780380976867
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages272
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