Arrowsmith
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · March 23, 2021
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- Who it’s for
- A searching novel about medical ideals, career choices, and the temptations that complicate both.
- Themes
- Medical research, Patient care, Ambition versus integrity
- Pacing
- Reflective
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Arrowsmith has been inspirational for several generations of med students. Martin Arrowsmith agonizes over his career and life decisions never sure if he’s making the correct descisions. While the book details Arrowsmith's pursuit of the noble ideals of medical research for the benefit of mankind and of selfless devotion to the care of patients, Lewis throws many less noble temptations and self deceptions in Arrowsmith’s path.
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The attractions of financial security, recognition, even wealth and power distract Arrowsmith from his original plan to follow in the footsteps of his first mentor, Max Gottlieb, a brilliant but abrasive bacteriologist. A powerful novel that asks more questions than it answers. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Ambition Under Pressure
A searching novel about medical ideals, career choices, and the temptations that complicate both.
Come here for
- A doctor’s uncertain choices and shifting ambitions
- Tension between medical research and patient care
Expect
- A probing look at idealism, recognition, and self-deception
- Questions that linger rather than settle neatly
Where it sits
| Medical Fiction | 77% |
|---|---|
| The Classics | 51% |
| Historical Fiction | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historical Fiction
- Medical Romance
- Medical Fiction
- Authors
- Sinclair Lewis
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- March 23, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Medical research · Patient care · Ambition versus integrity
- Reading lane
- Historical Fiction