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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Thanks for the link issybird - I shall read that with interest.
I thought that one of the attractions of Brazil for Brian would be his acceptance as a doctor for people other than poor blacks. Early in the book he says something about hating his job, spending all day with poor people in their tenements. It surprised me as I would have expected his dedication as a doctor to mean he would want to help such people, but he clearly preferred being in the high society of Harlem. They had a nice house and a car, so he must have been well paid.
He was a bit of an enigma all round.
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How would doctoring poor blacks in tenements pay well enough to support his upper-class lifestyle? It seems like this is another instance of the author not bothering about details--there doesn't seem to be any reason to withhold the information.