A Life Well Worn: A Collection of Personal Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (534 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0692699813 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Outstanding collection of stories told by an outstanding man True excellence both as a doctor and as a writer. Authenticity shines through each story as it did through the man. I marvel that he could become such a good writer so late in his life! If you want to know what life was like in Northern New Mexico in the 1970s you'll get the essence of it here. And you'll wish Larry Schreiber had been your doctor.. bstolz said Five Stars. I just loved reading these touching stories.. sjYou won't regret reading this beautiful life story. What a remarkable memoir about Dr. Schreiber's truly remarkable life. Written beautifully, this book is entertaining, captivating and heartwarming from beginning to end. Highly recommended!. 1 said You won't regret reading this beautiful life story.. What a remarkable memoir about Dr. Schreiber's truly remarkable life. Written beautifully, this book is entertaining, captivating and heartwarming from beginning to end. Highly recommended!
He was married to poet, Catherine Strisik. He passed away in January of 2016, shortly after completing this book. About the Author Larry Schreiber, M.D., lived in northern New Mexico and practiced medicine there for 43 years. In 1980, Dr. Schreiber spent the last three years of his life writing A Life Well Worn, a collection of autobiographical stories about children growing up (and down), his experiences in the Indian Health Services, memories of working in a war zone, and thoughts of caring for the dying in a rural community. Dr. . He was the proud father of 14 children, ten of them adopted from around the world. Schreiber was a me
Schreiber was a medical team leader for the international committee of the Red Cross on the Thai-Cambodian border. Dr. Larry Schreiber, M.D., lived in northern New Mexico and practiced medicine there for 43 years. He was the proud father of 14 children, ten of them adopted from around the world. Schreiber spent the last three years of his life writing A Life Well Worn, a colle
They are enriched by Larry’s commitment to healing, to unselfishness, to embracing without fear the complexity of existence, and always with the humor that is at the heart of his survival, of our survival as a species. I think this book is beautiful. — JOHN NICHOLS, Taos Resident and Author of The Milagro Beanfield War and The Sterile Cuckoo. The life it covers is truly ‘well worn’ and also one lived to the hilt. Sometimes the essays deal with tragedy—yet they are also filled with joy, humor, and the awe of being alive. Larry Schreiber’s life story is a love poem to Northern New Mexico and to all its inhabitants, as well as to Larry’s own children—so many of them adopted—and to his wife and friends and colleagues. I am moved to say that A Life Well Worn is among the most humane and decent books I have read in a long time