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With the release of this debut collection, Holt's work takes its \"rightful place besides those works of genius—fiction, philosophy, theology—unafraid of axing into our iced hearts\" (William Giraldi, New York Times Book Review). Whether chronicling a plague that ravages a New England town or the anguish of a son who keeps his father's beating heart in a jar, Holt's stories oscillate between the rational and the surreal, the future and the past, masterfully weaving together reality and myth. Like Poe or Hawthorne, \"Holt is a gifted wordsmith, his sentences carefully shaped and often beautiful, and he spins these ancient, irresolvable dilemmas in an elegiac poetry\" (Los Angeles Times).","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49756177400081,"sku":"CIN0393339084G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52657750999313,"sku":"CIN0393339084A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0393339084.jpg?v=1750740008"},{"product_id":"internal-medicine-book-terrence-holt-9780871408754","title":"Internal Medicine","description":"Out of the crucible of medical training, award-winning writer Terrence Holt shapes this stunning account of residency, the years-long ordeal in which doctors are made. \"Amid all the mess and squalor of the hospital, with its blind random unraveling of lives,\" Internal Medicine finds the compassion from which doctors discover the strength to care. Holt's debut collection of short stories, In the Valley of the Kings, was praised by the New York Times Book Review as one of \"those works of genius\" that \"will endure for as long as our hurt kind remains to require their truth.\" Now he returns with Internal Medicine—a work based on his own experiences as a physician— offering an insider's access to the long night of the hospital, where the intricacies of medical technology confront the mysteries of the human spirit.   \"A Sign of Weakness\" takes us through a grueling nightlong vigil at the bedside of a dying woman. In her \"small whimpering noises, rhythmic, paced almost to the beating of my heart,\" a doctor confronts his own helplessness, clinging \"like a child to the thought of morning.\" In the unforgettable \"Giving Bad News,\" we struggle with a man who maddeningly, terrifyingly refuses to remember his terminal diagnosis, forcing us to tell him, again and again, what we never should have wanted to tell him at all.   At the bedside of a hospice patient dying in a house full of cursing parrots, in \"The Surgical Mask,\" we reach the limits of what we are able to face in human suffering, in our own horror at what happens to our bodies as they die.   In the psychiatric hospital of \"Iron Maiden,\" a routine chest X-ray opens a window onto a nightmare vision of medieval torture and a recognition of how our mortality drives all of us to madness.   In these four stories, and five others, Internal Medicine captures the doctor's struggle not only with sickness, suffering, and death but the fears and frailties each of us—patient and doctor alike—brings to the bedside. In a powerful alchemy of insight and compassion, Holt reveals how those vulnerabilities are the foundations of caring. Intensely realized, gently ironic, heartfelt and heartbreaking, Internal Medicine is an account of what it means to be a doctor, to be mortal, and to be human.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50325488566545,"sku":"CIN0871408759VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53370793558289,"sku":"CIN0871408759G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0871408759.jpg?v=1750915056"},{"product_id":"in-the-valley-of-the-kings-book-terrence-holt-9780393071214","title":"In the Valley of the Kings","description":"In the Valley of the Kings marks the extraordinary debut of Terrence Holt, who fifteen years ago abandoned a promising writing career to practice medicine. Moved by his patients’ valor in the face of death, seeking to comprehend the mysteries revealed at their bedside, Holt has taken up fiction again. He emerges now with this astonishing collection of one novella and seven short stories that explore the farthest reaches of the imagination in a style that recalls the nineteenth-century American masters.    Holt leaps across genres and millennia, from small-town America to deep space, daring his readers to journey with him into realms as mysterious as they are unforgettable. The opening story, “‘? ????s,” is a chilling account of the last days of the human race, as the hospitalization of a little girl in a New England town heralds a terrifying plague, transmitted not by a microbe but by a single word. The final story, “Apocalypse,” returns to small-town New England and another vision of the end, in an intimate account of how a couple struggles to live and love under the shadow of the Earth’s approaching doom. In between, these stories range from outer space, where—in “Charybdis”—an astronaut alone on a doomed NASA mission comes to terms with his fate, to the Egyptian desert of the title novella, where an archaeologist seeks a fabulous tomb that holds the secret of immortality. Painting with lurid colors and finely crafted prose, Holt offers his readers haunting visions of the reefs and abysses of the human imagination. In the Valley of the Kings redefines the art of the story, throwing aside the rules in search of the enduring truths that ultimately make stories worth reading.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50458127368465,"sku":"CIN0393071219VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51330866905361,"sku":"CIN0393071219A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0393071219.jpg?v=1750696464"},{"product_id":"soldiers-sailors-book-terrence-holt-9781324098058","title":"Soldiers \u0026 Sailors","description":"Pursued by a past he cannot bring himself to remember, Hal returns to his decaying Midwestern birthplace, where he takes a job as staff physician at a decrepit veteran’s home. There, Hal finds himself the unwilling audience of his patients’ horrific stories, and descends with them into a Dantesque vision of the hell of war. Fleeing one hell for another, Hal searches the ruins of his ancestral home for clues to his own family’s descent into murder and madness. Between these two worlds, Hal finds a guide in Nell, the wryly attentive receptionist—who harbors her own secrets about both worlds.    The ancient veterans compel Hal to hear what they did and what they suffered, remembering a blood-spattered village in France, or the infernal jungles of New Guinea, the terrors of the Murmansk run or the rail yards of Dachau. Their anguished recollections illuminate this novel like star shells over a darkened battlefield. As the veterans’ war stories grow stranger and more terrible, they lead Hal to a terrifying discovery: about his patients, his family, and his collapsing world.    In Hal’s struggle to rebuild his world on the ruins of his father’s war, Terrence Holt has created a gripping saga, one ringing with the echoes of America’s bloodstained history, and the dire possibilities of our collective future. An epic celebration of the storyteller’s craft, Soldiers \u0026amp; Sailors offers a literary testament to the heroism of those whose sacrifice must never be forgotten.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53101741867281,"sku":"NGR9781324098058","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781324098058.jpg?v=1774001092"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-terrence-holt.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}