Sawbones Memorial

by Sinclair Ross

Book Overview

After practicing medicine for forty-five years, Doctor "Sawbones" Hunter is retiring. It's April 1948, and the long-awaited hospital in Upward, Saskatchewan is about to open. Although the war is over... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771077475
• ISBN13: 9780771077470
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 140 Pages

Customer Reviews

Classic Canadian Literature

This is one of the great works of Canadian fiction. It tells the story of a retiring doctor through the first-person perspectives of others. It is extremely well written, and the existentialist bent of the theme is insightful and provocative. It reads fast, and you'll wish there were more. This should certainly be part of any reading list for Canadian literature, and probably for fiction in general. Surely you should also read Ross's "As For Me and My House."