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Product Details
Simon & Schuster, June 2009
Trade Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1416556117
ISBN-13: 9781416556114
Description
Now in paperback, Carol Cassella’s riveting national bestseller that seamlessly melds compelling women’s fiction and medical drama to create an “involving debut that’s just what the doctor ordered” (People).
• Perennial hot subject: From ER to Grey’s Anatomy, from Complications by Atul Gawande to Stiff by mary roach, there’s a proven appetite for stories of human drama centered around medical establishments.
• Authenticity: Carol Cassella is a practicing anesthesiologist in Washington state whose work informs that of her compelling heroine, Dr. Marie Heaton, as well as the fabulous medical writing throughout the novel.
• Gripping, timely story: Oxygen opens with Marie Heaton, an anesthesiologist at the height of her medical career, facing a nightmarish operating room disaster that ends a child’s life and launches a tangled malpractice suit. As Marie twists through depositions, accusations, and a remorseful preoccupation with the dead child’s mother, she must also cope with her own aging father and confront questions of love and betrayal, family bonds, and the price of her own choices. With a final twist as heartrending as it is redeeming, Oxygen is a gripping and auspicious debut.
• Perennial hot subject: From ER to Grey’s Anatomy, from Complications by Atul Gawande to Stiff by mary roach, there’s a proven appetite for stories of human drama centered around medical establishments.
• Authenticity: Carol Cassella is a practicing anesthesiologist in Washington state whose work informs that of her compelling heroine, Dr. Marie Heaton, as well as the fabulous medical writing throughout the novel.
• Gripping, timely story: Oxygen opens with Marie Heaton, an anesthesiologist at the height of her medical career, facing a nightmarish operating room disaster that ends a child’s life and launches a tangled malpractice suit. As Marie twists through depositions, accusations, and a remorseful preoccupation with the dead child’s mother, she must also cope with her own aging father and confront questions of love and betrayal, family bonds, and the price of her own choices. With a final twist as heartrending as it is redeeming, Oxygen is a gripping and auspicious debut.
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Browse Inside Oxygen"In Oxygen, Carol Cassella's taut novel, Dr. Marie Heaton, an assured anesthesiologist at the top of her game, is forced to face the personal and professional fallout from an operating room disaster. Marie finds herself on the losing end of dollars-and-cents medicine in a malpractice suit, questioning herself, her skills, her colleagues, and her life choices. I couldn't wait to race to the end to see how her story played out, and I wasn't disappointed."
-- Lalita Tademy, author of Cane River
"A subtle, compelling plot that twists and twists again. This quickly becomes a book you cannot put down."
-- The Dallas Morning News
"A finely crafted mystery, as well as a sparkling literary work."
-- THE DENVER POST
"Like her protagonist, Carol Cassella has the heart of a poet and the mind of a physician; the result is a striking meditation on the complexities of love, the fragile miracle that is the human body and the burdens and blessings of being a healer."
-- Stephanie Kallos, author of Broken for You
"More than just an assured debut novel, this book is a tour de force, as emotionally involving as it is intelligent. Carol Cassella writes with the clarity and precision that are the hallmarks of her other profession....The fine, sharp details of her portrait of a gifted doctor facing a devastating crisis will stay with you long after the book is closed."
-- Susan Wiggs, author of Fireside and Just Breathe
" A startling plot twist, combined with Cassella's first-hand understanding of our ailing healthcare system, makes this involving debut just what the doctor ordered."
-- PEOPLE
Medford Mail Tribune, October 4, 2009
...fiction finalists was dominated by Bainbridge Islanders: Evison for 'All About Lulu,' David Guterson for 'The Other,' and Carol Cassella for 'Oxygen.' 'It's a great honor,' Evison said. 'For someone who got a 1.9 GPA and dropped out of ...
Seattle Times, October 3, 2009
...fiction finalists was dominated by Bainbridge Islanders: Evison for 'All About Lulu,' David Guterson for 'The Other' and Carol Cassella for 'Oxygen.' 'It's a great honor,' Evison said. 'For someone who got a 1.9 GPA and dropped out of ...
Kitsap Sun, October 2, 2009
...fiction finalists was dominated by Bainbridge Islanders: Evison for All About Lulu, David Guterson for The Other, and Carol Cassella for Oxygen. Its a great honor, Evison said. For someone who got a 1.9 GPA and dropped out of college, it ...
The Olympian, October 1, 2009
...fiction finalists was dominated by Bainbridge Islanders: Evison for 'All About Lulu,' David Guterson for 'The Other,' and Carol Cassella for 'Oxygen.' 'It's a great honor,' Evison said. 'For someone who got a 1.9 GPA and dropped out of ...
Bainbridge Island Review, May 19, 2009
...m. May 19 at BPA. Kathleen Thorne will emcee; a reception and book signing will follow. The lineup: Carol Cassella, ?Oxygen,? read by Kim Failla; Kathleen Alcalá, ?Do You Know the Way to the Monkey House?? directed by Fred Saas; Mary ...
