The Open Heart Club: A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery

This absorbing and poignant book is not merely the story of one writer's flawed heart. It is...
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Author: Gabriel Brownstein
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Language: English
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The Open Heart Club: A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery by Brownstein, Gabriel

The Open Heart Club: A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery

$49.80

The Open Heart Club: A Story about Birth and Death and Cardiac Surgery

$49.80
Author: Gabriel Brownstein
Format: Paperback
Language: English
This absorbing and poignant book is not merely the story of one writer's flawed heart. It is a history of cardiac medicine, a candid personal journey, and a profound reflection on mortality.
Born in 1966 with a congenital heart defect known as the tetralogy of Fallot, Gabriel Brownstein entered the world just as doctors were learning to operate on conditions like his. He received a life-saving surgery at five years old, and since then has ridden wave after wave of medical innovation, a series of interventions that have kept his heart beating.
The Open Heart Club is both a memoir of a life on the edge of medicine's reach and a history of the remarkable people who have made such a life possible. It begins with the visionary anatomists of the seventeenth century, tells the stories of the doctors (all women) who invented pediatric cardiology, and includes the lives of patients and physicians struggling to understand the complexities of the human heart. The Open Heart Club is a riveting work of compassionate storytelling, a journey into the dark hinterlands between sickness and health lit by bright moments of humor and inspiration.

Author: Gabriel Brownstein
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 04/02/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.43w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781610399487

About the Author
Gabriel Brownstein is an associate professor of English at St. John's College. His short stories have been published in The Harvard Review, Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All Story, and Glimmer Train. He won the PEN/Hemingway Award for his collection of stories, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt 3W, and his 2005 novel The Man from Beyond was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.

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