Morphine / Mikhail Bulgakov ; translated from the Russian by Hugh Aplin.
Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-...
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Language: | English |
Language of the Original: |
Russian |
Published: |
New York :
New Directions,
2013.
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Physical Description: | 55 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm |
Other Uniform Title: | Morfiĭ.
English. |
Format: | Book |
Summary: |
Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What Bromgard uncovers in the entries is Polyakov’s uncontrollable and merciless descent into morphine addiction — his first injection to ease his back pain, the thrill of the drug as it overtakes him, the looming signs of addiction, and the feverish final entries before his death. |
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Note: | "A New Directions Pearl." |
Call Number: | PG3476.B78 M6713 2013 |
ISBN: | 9780811221689 (pbk.) 0811221687 (pbk.) |
References: |
LJ 09/15/2013. |