La doctora Cole es una mujer de nuestro tiempo. Tiene cuarenta aos y su vida est determinada por un continuo conflicto de intereses.

Esta moderna novela es la ltima entrega de la triloga de la familia Cole, conformada adems por El mdico y Chamn.

Las exigencias del matrimonio frente a la ambicin profesional, los avances cientficos frente a la conciencia social; la vida urbana frente al aprecio por los valores rurales, as como la lucha por preservar la vida frente al convencimiento del poder de decisin de una mujer.

Fiel a la tradicin familiar, que ha hecho de la medicina un sacerdocio, la doctora R.J. Cole decide dejar Boston para volver al campo y trabajar como mdico rural. All, en las colinas de Massachusetts, podr recobrar ese don de adivinacin tan peculiar que ya distingui a sus antepasados y volver a descubrir aquellos placeres que la gran ciudad le haba arrebatado.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

With Choices, Noah Gordon brings to a close his great trilogy spanning the generations of the Cole medical dynasty. Beginning with the legendary 11th-century doctor Robert J. Cole, each eldest son has borne the same name and middle initial, and some have possessed the uncanny “sixth sense” known as The Gift–the terrible and instinctive knowledge that someone is about to die.

In Choices, it emerges again in the present, but this time in a daughter, Roberta Jeanne d’Arc Cole, known as R.J. She defies her beloved father when she chooses to study law rather than medicine, yet destiny is to overtake her when she realizes that she has inherited The Gift. As she holds the hands of a sick man, R.J. feels a dreadful certainty that he is going to die. Tragically, he is her own lover. Struggling with her grief, R.J. knows she must bow to the inevitable and become a physician. But her life changes when she moves to a small-town practice and is faced with a terrible dilemma.