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A Pocketful of Rye

Pages
245
Published
1976
Language
English

Synopsis

A young Scottish doctor, Carroll, finds himself adrift in a Swiss clinic, where the stories of his patients and the quiet moments of his own life begin to coalesce into a sense of purpose. A Pocketful of Rye is a quietly powerful meditation on vocation, loss, and the slow building of hope.

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About the author

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A. J. Cronin

Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors. Cronin knew both areas, as a medical inspector of mines and as a doctor in Harley Street. The book exposed unfairness and malpractice in British medicine...

Characters

CarrollProtagonist
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