Download or read book Taking the World in for Repairs written by Richard Selzer and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of a dozen short stories, essays, and memoirs originally published in 1986, and now available in trade paperback. Richard Selzer retired as a surgeon in 1984 to write about his profession. His books include Letters to a Young Doctor, Confessions of a Knife, Mortal Lessons, Rituals of Surgery, and most recent, Raising the Dead.