LEADER 03282nam 2200637 450 001 9910460241903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4804-7135-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000233924 035 $a(EBL)1806551 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001526744 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11878978 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001526744 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11512652 035 $a(PQKB)11162028 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1806551 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1806551 035 $a(OCoLC)892801814 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000233924 100 $a20180717h20141997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn unspoken art $eprofiles of veterinary life /$fLee Gutkind 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cOpen Road Integrated Media,$d2014. 210 4$dİ1997 215 $a1 online resource (387 p.) 300 $a"Portions of this book were first published in slightly different forms in Prairie schooner and The crab orchard review and in The art of nonfiction: writing and selling the literature of reality, published by John Wiley & Sons"--Title page verso. 300 $aIncludes index. 327 $aCover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: ""We Lay Our Hands Down upon Them""; Doing ""God''s Work""; Manhattan Veterinarian; Rescue Fantasy; Office Hours; A Way of Life; VHUP; ""Lady Comes into My Office""; New Bolton; Stallion Ring; Invasive Procedures; The Quitter; Difficult Decisions; Not Just an Ordinary Veterinary School Vet; Reindeer with a Hernia; Aquazoo; Primates--and Other Warriors; Tuskectomy; Fecalas Lizardas--and Other Funny Jokes; Baby-sitting the Bongo; Icy; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z; Acknowledgments 327 $aAbout the AuthorCopyright 330 $aIn the tradition of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, An Unspoken Art is Lee Gutkind's captivating look at the lives of veterinarians, from the zoos to the farmLee Gutkind, the godfather of creative nonfiction, explores with warmth and sincerity the worlds of modern-day veterinarians-from practitioners operating on Manhattan's Upper East Side to those working knee deep in mud in the English countryside. Gutkind profiles the men and women who have devoted their lives to the care of animals, almost all treating their patients with more humanity and compassion than physicians in huma 606 $aVeterinarians$zUnited States 606 $aVeterinary medicine$zUnited States 606 $aVeterinary medicine$xVocational guidance$zUnited States 606 $aVeterinarians 606 $aVeterinary medicine 606 $aVeterinary medicine$xVocational guidance 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aVeterinarians 615 0$aVeterinary medicine 615 0$aVeterinary medicine$xVocational guidance 615 0$aVeterinarians. 615 0$aVeterinary medicine. 615 0$aVeterinary medicine$xVocational guidance. 676 $a636.089092273 700 $aGutkind$b Lee$0865082 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460241903321 996 $aAn unspoken art$92084769 997 $aUNINA