The Mystery Of Breathing bookcover

The Mystery Of Breathing

A Novel
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Description

An impassioned and gifted neonatal physician, Dr. Maggie Claymore fights for the lives of her newborn patients with a fierceness that has gained her the devotion of worried parents and sometimes the ire of her colleagues. Maggie is just shy of forty, and her career is on the rise: she is on the verge of receiving a coveted promotion at a prestigious Boston research hospital. That is, until an anonymous hate campaign calls her credentials and her ethics into question, threatening to destroy her professional reputation. Suspicion and doubt begin to shade all of her relationships, from her professional connections to her own blissful marriage. Worst of all, the rumors surrounding her begin to shake her deepest sense of who she is.
Psychologically riveting, The Mystery of Breathing explores modern personal and ethical dilemmas in a story of one woman's struggle to mainatain her identity.

Product Details

PublisherHarper Paperbacks
Publish DateJuly 13, 2005
Pages352
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780618562077
Dimensions8.3 X 5.5 X 0.9 inches | 10.4 pounds

About the Author

DR. PERRI KLASS is the award-winning author of eleven works of fiction and nonfiction, including Love and Modern Medicine and Other Women’s Children. She is a pediatrician and teaches journalism and pediatrics at New York University. Klass is also the medical director of the national literacy program Reach Out and Read, dedicated to promoting literacy as part of pediatric primary care. She lives in New York.

Reviews

"It's ER, a whodunit, and a thought-provoking novel rolled into one . . . a real page-turner." --Parenting Magazine

"An entertaining and intelligent twist on a psychological thriller that should appeal to men as well as women." Publishers Weekly

"Engrossing and tensely haunting." Kirkus Reviews —

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