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Article: `Lost in America: A Journey with My Father,' by Sherwin B. Nuland; Knopf.(The Seattle Times)
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- February 19, 2003
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Byline: Kimberly B. Marlowe
Readers of Sherwin B. Nuland's 1994 book, "How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter," marveled at his ability to be unflinchingly clinical, yet so clearly respectful of the ebb and flow of human life. His latest book reveals much of what shaped this cool observer and evocative writer, now in his 70s, a Yale professor of surgery and biomedical ethics.
This remarkable work could be shelved in any number of places in your favorite bookstore: It is history, memoir and mystery.
Nuland writes in the new book's introduction that it is an attempt to make peace with his father _ and himself. It is the story of an ...