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Noah Gordon

The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy, #1)

4.41 avg rating — 56,895 ratings — published 1986 — 199 editions

Shaman (Cole Family Trilogy, #2)

4.19 avg rating — 15,717 ratings — published 1992 — 131 editions

The Last Jew

4.15 avg rating — 10,095 ratings — published 1999 — 75 editions

Matters of Choice (Cole Family Trilogy, #3)

3.51 avg rating — 7,771 ratings — published 1995 — 98 editions

La bodega

3.90 avg rating — 6,063 ratings — published 2006 — 20 editions

The Jerusalem Diamond

3.64 avg rating — 2,951 ratings — published 1962 — 62 editions

The Rabbi

3.76 avg rating — 2,663 ratings — published 1965 — 103 editions

The Death Committee

3.50 avg rating — 1,876 ratings — published 1969 — 79 editions

The Cole Trilogy: The Physician, Shaman, and Matters of Choice

4.34 avg rating — 1,421 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions

Der Rabbi / Die

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Remembering Noah Gordon, Historical Fiction Novelist, 1926-2021

In The Physician, an orphan in eleventh-century London, Robert Cole, becomes a fast-talking swindler. As he matures, his strange gift—an acute sensitivity to impending death—never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but by claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world’s most renowned physician, Avicenna. Cole’s journey and love for a woman who must struggle against her only rival—medicine—make The Physician a riveting modern classic.

In Shaman, Dr. Robert Judson Cole, nineteenth-century descendent of the first Robert Cole, travels from his ravaged Scottish homeland, through the operating rooms of antebellum Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich his classical medical

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Noah Gordon (novelist)

American novelist (1926–2021)

For the American poet, see Noah Eli Gordon.

Noah Gordon
Gordon introducing his book The Winemaker in Barcelona in 2008
Born	(1926-11-11)November 11, 1926 Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	November 22, 2021(2021-11-22) (aged 95) Dedham, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist
Spouse	Lorraine Seay
Children	3

Noah Gordon (November 11, 1926 – November 22, 2021) was an American novelist.

Early life and career

Gordon was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on November 11, 1926, the son of a pawnbroker.^[1] He served in the US Army at the end of World War II.^[2]^[3] He reported for the Worcester Telegram until he was hired by the Boston Herald in 1959.^[1]

Works and reception

Some of the topics covered within his novels include medical history and medical ethics. Later he began to focus more on themes relating to the Inquisition and Jewish cultural history.

Gordon's debut novel, The Rabbi, spent 26 weeks on