Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The book is very solid with bright, unmarked pages. Previous owner's name is written on the first end paper. The boards and spine have minor shelf & edge wear except for a few lines drawn on the front board. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 310 p.; 18 cm. A Bantam book; Q5888. Bantam Books.. "Thirty three printings through May 1972. "--Verso. paperback in good condition read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1970
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Nice soft cover, lightly read, slight shelf wear to cover, aging, price written on front cover, creases on spine, slight slant to book, stk #1017s9. 310 p. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good. No Jacket. Spine creased, minor edge wear, corners and spine slightly bumped, text is clean and unmarked, binding tight, overall a good copy. read more
Description: Very Good. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1959, Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Clean and tight copy, dust jacket is tattered but intact. Helps support Christian Homeschooling family. read more
"This book was an odd one. I got it from a box marked "free" on a front lawn, choosing it because I recognized the author and because it sounded vaguely interesting. I was certainly right about the latter -- the story kept me very involved (at least, after I got past the first 30 pages or so, which went a bit slowly). It was much like any modern medical TV show in book form, weaving together personal crises and medical emergencies fairly smoothly. But Hailey uses the same narrative techniques -- even the same phrases -- so many times that they quickly grow tired. Further, the book is very obviously dated, and not in a particularly classic way. Hailey seems eager to prove, for example, that he's more than okay with casual premarital sex, and that he's well aware that women are allowed to enjoy it as much as men. I'm sure these were still relatively liberal ideas in 1959, when the book was originally published, but it would've been nice if Hailey's approach could have been a bit less obvious. Surely it must've seemed obvious even in his own time....? Nevertheless, for all these quibbles, I eventually found myself eager to know how everything turned out for the many characters involved. I sped through the second half of the book, and even found it quite unexpectedly affecting by the end."
"A pretty good book that highlights the issues that face medicine. The contrast between experience and knowledge and how the old has to make way for the new."
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