The Night Interns

The Night Interns
Austin Duffy
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Trade Paperback
h216 x 135mm - 208pg
4 Aug 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781783788330
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Intravenous lines, catheters, bodies in distress, wounds: three young surgical interns working the night shift must care for - and keep alive - the influx of patients, while frightened and uncertain about what the night will throw at them. The Night Interns beautifully conjures the alien space of the hospital wards and corridors through the viewpoint of one of the interns, as he comes to terms with the bodily reality of the patients and the bizarre instruments of healing. Equally unsettling for the inexperienced junior staff are the dysfunctional hierarchies of the hospital workplace. Under intense pressure and with very little sleep, the interns become inured to their encounters with sickness, all the while searching for the meaning in their work. By turns moving, shocking, and darkly funny, The Night Interns fizzes with nervous energy, forensic insight and moral tension, as it evokes life and death on the frontline.
A sharp shock of a book, visceral, and acutely affecting -- Lisa McInerney With the dark humour and moral seriousness that make Austin Duffy' s writing so captivating, The Night Interns brilliantly portrays the excruciating stress of constantly feeling that what is expected of you may well be more than you are capable of achieving -- Carys Davies Stylish, mordant, and pitch-perfect - I read it in one sitting. If Rachel Cusk or Sally Rooney had been junior doctors they might have come up with something like this -- Gavin Francis * author of Recovery * The Night Interns is an utterly immersive read. Duffy has managed to capture the claustrophobia, exhaustion and constant pressure of life in a contemporary hospital so effectively I could physically feel the tension on every page. A gripping, honest and incredibly important book -- Jan Carson * author of The Raptures * Entirely gripping. . . a fascinating but terrifying backstage glimpse of an apparently-functioning hospital where the director is a tyrant, the producer is unhinged, and the actors don' t know their lines. . . This novel is to be prized on so many levels -- Claire Kilroy
Austin Duffy is the author of two novels, Ten Days and This Living and Immortal Thing, which was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and was runner-up for the McKitterick Prize. He is a practising medical oncologist and lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781783788330
Published: 4 Aug 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Books
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Spine: 14mm
Weight: 220g
Pages: 208

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