Stroke of Good Luck: A True Nurse Romance
Kotzwinkle, William
Primary Category:
Literature /
Fiction
Genre: Short Story
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Annotated by:
- Ratzan, Richard M.
- Date of entry: Jul-26-2004
Summary
Before and after an appendectomy (done for what seem possibly questionable indications) an adolescent boy just feeling the surges of pubescence receives the appropriate attentions of a nurse. During a follow-up visit, for no clear medical reason that I can fathom, he also experiences the exhilarating good luck, for him, of a sperm test, performed by the physician's "young, good-looking nurse."
Primary Source
Elephant Bangs Train
Publisher
Avon
Place Published
New York
Edition
1971
Page Count
10
Commentary
In "Stroke Of Good Luck," William Kotzwinkle, the talented and versatile author of the cultish Fan Man, a novel that just flows from beginning to end, and winner of several awards for E. T., the Extra-Terrestrial: A Novel, revels in the bawdy punning that adolescence, pubescence and the variously interpreted rituals of medicine afford.