Arrowsmith
by Sinclair Lewis and José Manuel Álvarez Flórez
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The origins of Arrowsmith can be traced to the late 1960s in Sunapee, New Hampshire. Steven Tyler was a drummer and vocalist originally from Yonkers, New York, who had been in a series of relatively unsuccessful bands such as The Vic Tallarico Orchestra, The Strangeurs/Chain Reaction, The Chain, Fox Chase, and William Proud. In 1969, while vacationing in Sunapee, he met Joe Perry, who was at the time washing dishes at the Anchorage in Sunapee Harbor, and playing in a band called the Jam Band with bassist Tom Hamilton and drummer David "Pudge" Scott. This meeting would eventually lead to the formation of Arrowsmith
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Physicians, After years of work as a small town doctor and a research scientist, Arrowsmith heads for the West Indies with a serum to halt an epidemic. A tragic turn of events forces him to come to terms with his career and his personal life, Practice, Satire, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Fiction, Medicine in literature, award:pulitzer_prize=1926, Open Library Staff Picks, award:pulitzer_prize=fiction, Scientists, Medicine, Medical ethics, Research, Evangelists, Retired executives, Married people, Americans, Clergy, American fiction, Protestant churches, Social life and customs, Middle class, Avarice, Modern Literature, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, New York Times reviewed, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Fiction, medical, Fiction, satire, Fiction, classics, Medical novels, LiteraturePeople
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"THE driver of the wagon swaying through forest and swamp of the Ohio wilderness was a ragged girl of fourteen."
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Originally published in 1925, after three years of anticipation, the book follows the life of Martin Arrowsmith, a rather ordinary fellow who gets his first taste of medicine at 14 as an assistant to the drunken physician in his home town.
It is Leora Tozer who makes Martin's life extraordinary. With vitality and love, she urges him beyond the confines of the mundane to risk answering his true calling as a scientist and researcher. Not even her tragic death can extinguish her spirit or her impact on Martin's life.
After years of work as a small town doctor and a research scientist, Arrowsmith heads for the West Indies with a serum to halt an epidemic. A tragic turn of events forces him to come to terms with his career and his personal life.
As the son and grandson of physicians, Sinclair Lewis had a store of experiences and imparted knowledge to draw upon for Arrowsmith.
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