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“Doc," by Mary Doria Russell is the fictionalized telling of a single year in the life of John Henry "Doc" Holliday, most famous for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and Earp's brothers, a friendship that most people hear about in conjunction with the infamous "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" in Tombstone, AZ.

"Doc" tells a story set in 1878, a couple of years before all that stuff of legend, when Doc Holliday is a consumptive dentist trying to make a living as a dentist by day and faro dealer by night in Dodge City, Kansas. Russell, an anthropologist and teacher, extensively researched Holliday's life through letters, diaries and news accounts from the time, which makes this version of Holliday's life less fictionalized than some of the legends that grew up around him.

A child of Georgia privilege whose childhood was shaped by the Civil War's destruction of a way of life, Holliday was a gentleman and pianist who received his degree in dentistry in Pennsylvania. Not long after he set up a practice in Atlanta, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, which led to his moving to the West in the hopes that the drier air might help with the disease. Holliday's friendship with the Earp brothers began in Kansas, and much of this book is about the growth of that friendship, and how life was on the Western frontier in 1878.

If you're looking for a story about the Doc Holliday legend, replete with showdowns and blazing gunfights, this is not the book for you. But if you're interested in how the actual man might have lived - gentle, generous, sickly, but with a hair-trigger temper - and what made him the way he was, I highly recommend "Doc." Russell spins a good story, and I found her Doc Holliday to be far more interesting than the one in the legends.


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Doc A Novel Mary Doria Russell Books Reviews

"Doc" a well written story filled with history, humor and human frailty. Only three stars (I would have given the book three and one-half stars but couldn't figure out how to do the one-half star sign.) because IMO it was somewhat long (although not in fact long) for the story of an historically inconsequential dentist/gambler. Of course, Doc's illness and death at a young age may have kept him from fully exploiting his obvious exceptional intellect and talents. BTW, those who like or would like "Doc" should consider "Epitaph"; Ms Russell' story of the shoot-out at the OK corral. I enjoyed it and will rate it the same for the same reasons.
This is the best book I've read in a long time - I love good historical fiction, and this most certainly fits the bill. Well written, great dialogue and descriptions and settings, tremendous character creation... and my family's tenuous link to Mattie Blaylock makes the reading all the more enjoyable and engrossing. I could hardly bear the interruptions of daily life.

My sincere thanks, Dr. Erickson, for the recommendation! I'll be rereading this one soon.
A wonderful, surprising story about friendship, love, brotherhood, sacrificial service, doggedness, freedom, and hope in face of perpetual perishing.
The characters are so alive and the writing so good that the book reads itself, never flagging in interest or invention.
Reminds me of Isabel Allende's Zorro or The Order of the Phoenix.
All I wanted at the end was to read more about Doc and Kate and Wyatt and Mattie and Morg and Alex and Belle and James and Bessie.
After experiencing Doc's suffering, the prayers of Robert Louis Stevenson seem even deeper and sweeter.
Very well researched. The novel seemed to give a very real insight into the dynamics that made Dodge City a rough and tumble center where cowboys and towns people would often collide in there efforts to make a living and then spend the money they made. Doc Holliday's life and times are covered in depth. It is at once fascinating and then somewhat tedious in the minute by minute account of his dealings with his illness and his relentless dealing at the card tables. His interaction with the Earps and other towns people he befriended were portrayed as very passionate and emotional encounters. I feel it was a conscious effort to debunk the legend of a Doc Holliday that was more of a cold
hearted card sharp that survived many a gun fight with his quick drawing skills.
This portrayal I felt was a bit whiney. This man must have been hard as nails to survive in that environment and for stall death for so many years with tuberculosis and all night card games with the rough characters that settled their disputes with sidearms without a second thought. I give it a 3 star rating as a good read, but one that left me wanting to see more of that tough side he must have had.
This is one of the best novels I have ever read. Mary Doria Russell is brilliant. Her research is impeccable, her writing sings and snaps, the characters dance off the page, the complex plot lines knit together into a complete, compelling story ... this book absolutely floored me, in the best possible way. I regret that it took me this long to discover Russell’s work. At one point, an early conversation between the two main protagonists (Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday) made me burst out laughing so hard I woke up my spouse. Then, just a few pages later, she invoked deep sadness with the way she reminds us what Hollidays’s fates had in store for him. She is able to express deep sentiment without a hint of sentimentality. Highly recommended if you like intelligent, well-written fiction.
Doc by Mary Doria Russell was a book I enjoyed immensely from beginning to end. It's an intense character-driven study of Doc Holliday, the Earp brothers and the inhabitants of Dodge, Kansas, before Tombstone's famous Fight at the OK Corrall.

I really enjoyed the writing style of the author who brought all the citizens, the city of Dodge and life in the American West alive for me. I forgot I was reading fiction.

The author did excellent research and was able to dispel the myth of Doc and bring to life the person that was John Henry Holliday.

After a short break, I look forward to reading Epitaph, the final part of Doc's journey.
“Doc," by Mary Doria Russell is the fictionalized telling of a single year in the life of John Henry "Doc" Holliday, most famous for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and Earp's brothers, a friendship that most people hear about in conjunction with the infamous "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" in Tombstone, AZ.

"Doc" tells a story set in 1878, a couple of years before all that stuff of legend, when Doc Holliday is a consumptive dentist trying to make a living as a dentist by day and faro dealer by night in Dodge City, Kansas. Russell, an anthropologist and teacher, extensively researched Holliday's life through letters, diaries and news accounts from the time, which makes this version of Holliday's life less fictionalized than some of the legends that grew up around him.

A child of Georgia privilege whose childhood was shaped by the Civil War's destruction of a way of life, Holliday was a gentleman and pianist who received his degree in dentistry in Pennsylvania. Not long after he set up a practice in Atlanta, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, which led to his moving to the West in the hopes that the drier air might help with the disease. Holliday's friendship with the Earp brothers began in Kansas, and much of this book is about the growth of that friendship, and how life was on the Western frontier in 1878.

If you're looking for a story about the Doc Holliday legend, replete with showdowns and blazing gunfights, this is not the book for you. But if you're interested in how the actual man might have lived - gentle, generous, sickly, but with a hair-trigger temper - and what made him the way he was, I highly recommend "Doc." Russell spins a good story, and I found her Doc Holliday to be far more interesting than the one in the legends.