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Bert Keizer

Bert Keizer is a physician and philosopher. His bestselling book about life in a nursing home, 'Dancing With Mr. D.' (1994), has been translated into several languages.

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After writing a novel, Passing Festivities (1998), and an introduction to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, he published a translation of letters by Emily Dickinson in 2008. Keizer is a columnist for Trouw and Medisch Contact, and a regular contributor to The Threepenny Review in Berkeley.

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Dancing with Mr. D.

This is an extraordinary memoir by a doctor working in a nursing home for the terminally ill. The patients, some young, many old, are described with considerable empathy. They are ordinary people who just happen to be very dying. Some face the prospect with apathy, some deny it, some accept it gracefully while others rage against it.

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