A Symphony for Shelbie

By Carl Vigeland

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Crossing music and medicine in a hybrid narrative--part memoir, magical realism, medical reporting, and autofiction--set primarily at a great teaching hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and a famed music venue in the Berkshires (also of Massachusetts), A SYMPHONY FOR SHELBIE vividly portrays a charismatic, Greek-born pediatric oncologist, Giannoula Lakka Klement, whose pioneering form of a chemotherapy administration called metronomics prolongs for four years the life of a teenaged patient, Shelbie Murphy, whose inspiring spirit prompts the novella-length book's benediction-like promise of grace.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0578519062

ISBN13:9780578519067

Release Date:May 2019

Publisher:Combray House

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.59 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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