Joseph Levy Escapes Death
Regent Press Printers & Publishers
Paperback 228 pages English Mar 07, 2019
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Joseph Levy leads a quiet life in rural Wheaton Arizona. Retired from a long career in psychiatric research and practice, he reads, writes, and walks in the mountains and hills near the Native reservation. His quiet life ends, however, when a dental crown replacement causes trouble just before meeting an internet date in California. Thus begins a year of back-to-back nightmare infections, a drug overdose, and two failed relationships. At every step, Levy is confronted by matters of life and death, love and hate, faith and doubt, trust and betrayal. Most of all, he faces what it means to be sick and to be healthy. He prays to his God, relies on his friends, examines his dreams, and entrusts his psyche to a new therapist. Joseph Levy Escapes Death is a tale of perseverance in the face of adversity. Strassman uses several lenses to view Levy's life: medical, psychoanalytic, and religious--both Buddhist and Jewish. Pathos and humor fill the tale, while enlightening detours examine the Holocaust, cardiovascular physiology and microbiology, and Jewish-Christian relations.
- Author:
- Rick Strassman
- Publisher:
- Regent Press Printers & Publishers
- Publication Date:
- Mar 07, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 228 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1587904721
- ISBN-13:
- 9781587904721