The daughter of Dick Doria, five-term sheriff of Dupage County, Illinois, Mary grew up with guns and cops but she also holds a doctorate in biological anthropology and taught gross anatomy at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dentistry before she left academe to write. From the Hardcover edition.
The daughter of Dick Doria, five-term sheriff of Dupage County, Illinois, Mary grew up with guns and cops but she also holds a doctorate in biological anthropology and taught gross anatomy at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dentistry before she left academe to write. From the Hardcover edition.
. Widely praised for her meticulous research, fine prose, and compelling narrative drive, Russell is uniquely suited to telling the story of the lawman Wyatt Earp and the dental surgeon John Henry Holliday. Mary Doria Russell is the award-winning author of four previous bestsellers: The Sparrow, Children of God, A Thread of Grace, and Dreamers of the Day The Doc Holliday of legend is a gambler and gunman who appears out of nowhere in 1881, arriving in Tombstone with a bad reputation and a hooker named Big Nose Kate. She was still in mourning for her firstborn, “a sweet little girl who lived just long enough to gaze and smile and laugh, and break her parents' hearts.” I'm sure you can imagine her distress when her second child was born with a cleft palate and cleft lip. Struggling to stay awake. . My fondest hope for Doc is that it will win for him the compassion and respect I think he deserves. She was a piano teacher who introduced him to the music that would become their great shared passion. Struggling to stay alive When the infant was two months old, his uncle Dr. In the midst of our nation's ugliest war, she raised a shy, intelligent child to be a thoughtful, courteous gentleman and a fine young scholar who would earn the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery before he was 21. Read it, and weep. The loss was staggering, and when he, too, developed TB, he knew exactly what kind of awfulCorral links their names forever in American frontier mythology—when neither man wanted fame or deserved notoriety.Look for special features inside.
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Born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. Soon, with few job prospects, Doc Holliday is gambling professionally with his partner, Mária Katarina Harony, a high-strung, classically educated Hungarian whore. And that is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and a fearless lawman named Wyatt Earp begins— before the gunfight at the O.K. John Henry Holliday arrives on the Texas frontier hoping that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. In search of high-stakes poker, the couple hits the saloons of Dodge CityWhat a wonderful read this was. Foyt, Parnelli Jones or Fireball Roberts who drove like bulls in a china shop and could grab any racecar by its neck and wrestle it to the ground. Barton's stories are filled with crazy bad guys, exciting danger, hot steamy love scenes, dedicated family situations and the best part.happy endings!. It's a stand alone book, yet it continues the saga of this family. I bought this book for a family member who has lymph cancer to help describe and show the lymph drainage system and how to massage it to keep the lymph fluid moving.. His later books were often about Porsches, including "The Porsche 911 Story" the seminal work on those iconoclastic automobiles. Frère maintained his connections with the 24-Hour Race at Le Mans. Wonderful book---great recipes and photos of her family with a bit of her family stories includedI love it. Beautiful historical details and a love story that brought tears to my eyes - all with the usual Gracie witt and verve. In 2000 he created an autobiography about the cars in his life -- racing and otherwise, and what they meant to him.Frére was born in Le Harve, France on January 30, 1917. He came to his own faith decisions after a, ahem, active
- Title : Doc: A Novel
- Author : Mary Doria Russell
- Rating : 4.64 (591 Vote)
- Publish : 2016-5-17
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 411 Pages
- Asin : 081298000X
- Language : English
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