cover image Down from Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age

Down from Troy: A Doctor Comes of Age

Richard Selzer. Back Bay Books, $10.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-316-78065-0

With a physician's eye and an artist's vision, surgeon-turned-writer Selzer traces the arc of his life from his 1930s childhood in Troy, N.Y., through his medical training and surgical career to his retirement. (Sept.)