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Title: Fortunate Man, A: The Story of a Country Doctor
Author: BERGER JOHN
Illustrator: FRANCIS GAVIN (INTRO)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/03/2016
Imprint: CANONGATE
Price: $24.00
Publishing status: Active
In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man – his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred…In A Fortunate Man, Berger’s text and the photography of Jean Mohr reveal with extraordinary intensity the life of a remarkable man. It is a portrait of one selfless individual and the rural community for which he became the hub. Drawing on psychology, biography and medicine A Fortunate Man is a portrait of sacrifice. It is also a profound exploration of what it means to be a doctor, to serve a community and to heal…With a new introduction by writer and GP, Gavin Francis.
Series: Canons
ISBN: 9781782115038
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 176