Summer House with Swimming Pool: A Novel

from 68papyrus

I was fortunate to win a copy of Summer House with Swimming Pool: A Novel through the LibraryThing Early Reviewers Program. This book details a summer in the life of a middle aged general practitioner of questionable professional and personal ethics. Marc Schlosser runs a fairly successful medica...

from ozzer

The narrator and protagonist of this interesting novel is Dr. Marc Schlosser. Koch has created a complex but intriguing personality in Marc. He is a competent clinician but completely bored with his practice and patients. He has been faking a caring attitude toward his patients for years but, bef...

from jhoaglin

I found this book quite engaging. Marc Schlosser is a physician, but not one I would ever want to visit; he has strayed far from the Hippocratic Oath, and draws patients in by his willingness to prescribe drugs, or whatever else they might desire. This book is written in the first person, and I f...

from SonjaYoerg

If you haven't read the description of the book, don't. It gives too much of the plot away. I hate it when they do that.The main character and narrator, Dr. Marc Schlosser, has anti-social personality disorder. That's why so many of the reviews focus on his slimy personality, and why many readers...

from ursula

If you don't mind reading about people with questionable-at-best moral compasses, you may enjoy Herman Koch's books. This one concerns Marc, who as the first line tells us, is a doctor. He's a general practitioner, so he listens to people's day-to-day troubles and reassures them that they are goi...