Download or read book Down from Troy written by Richard Selzer and published by Sound Library. This book was released on 1992 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surgeon and writer Richard Selzer looks back upon his upbringing in Troy, New York during the Great Depression. The memoir deals largely with Selzer's struggle to please his physician father, who wanted him to be a doctor and his mother (a singer) who wanted him to write. His sometimes grim tale also describes the abysmal conditions endured by his father's poor and working-class patients. This is a reprint of a 1992 book originally published by Morrow. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR