{"product_id":"the-house-of-god-isbn-9780425238097","title":"The House of God","description":"\u003cb\u003eBy turns heartbreaking, hilarious, and utterly human, \u003ci\u003eThe House of God\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing and provocative novel about what it really takes to become a doctor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon.  Singularly compelling…brutally honest.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStruggling with grueling hours and sudden life-and-death responsibilities, Basch and his colleagues, under the leadership of their rule-breaking senior resident known only as the Fat Man, must learn not only how to be fine doctors but, eventually, good human beings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA phenomenon ever since it was published, \u003ci\u003eThe House of God\u003c\/i\u003e was the first unvarnished, unglorified, and uncensored portrait of what training to become a doctor is truly like, in all its terror, exhaustion and black comedy. With more than two million copies sold worldwide, it has been hailed as one of the most important medical novels ever written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an introduction by John Updike \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe House of God\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The raunchy, troubling, and hilarious novel that turned into a cult phenomenon.  Singularly compelling...brutally honest.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bawdy, blistering...this is \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e with stethoscopes.”—\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wonderfully wild, ribald, erotic, bitter, compassionate...in the same spirit as \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wildly funny, sad, laugh-out-loud, frightening, outrageous, thought-provoking, moving book…a story of modern medicine rarely, if ever, told.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Houston Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Does for the practice of medicine what \u003ci\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e M*A*S*H\u003c\/i\u003e did for the practice of warfare.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Newark Star-Ledger \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mordantly funny, brilliantly ironic...A writer of outstanding substance and style.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cb\u003eSamuel Shem\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, playwright, and, for three decades, a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. His novels include \u003ci\u003eThe House of God\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMount Misery\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFine\u003c\/i\u003e. He is coauthor with his wife, Janet Surrey, of the hit Off-Broadway play \u003ci\u003eBill W. and Dr. Bob\u003c\/i\u003e, the story of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous (winner of the 2007 Performing Arts Award of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence), and \u003ci\u003eWe Have to Talk: Healing Dialogues Between Men and Women\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Berkley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304308920549,"sku":"NP9780425238097","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780425238097.jpg?v=1767739840","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-house-of-god-isbn-9780425238097","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}