title: Letters to a Best Friend
author:  Richard Selzer 
description: collectively [the letters] reveal a brooding Selzer, a man continually doubting himself as a writer, doubting his decision to leave surgery; yet we also see a man capable of soaring to almost giddy heights, sustained by a tart tongue and a tendency to veer toward the dramatic. He is a man of many voices. Selzer and Josyph seem to stabilize each otherRichard the older always encouraging Peter the younger, always praising  the less-experienced writer, who is also a painter, playwright, actor, raconteur  Selzers letters contain Josyph; they answer him in sustained conversation over a long period of timetheir cumulative effect of value to both scholar and common reader.  <i>Sewanee Review</i><br /><br />Richard Selzer has long been a favorite of mine. His stories are fascinating.  Annie Dillard, author of <i>Tickets for a Prayer Wheel</i>
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  # More Than His Best Friend
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Sally Henson
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2018 by Sally Henson
  
  
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  **ISBN:** 9781731199423
  
  
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  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [More Than His Best
  Friend](part0003.html#2RHM0-32cb70bd729f4cae8896944370d02b2a)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [G5 Rules of Friendship](part0004.html#3Q280