Word: hospitaler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Hospital is to most hospital romances what the Mayo Clinic is to an osteopath. Not even during the recent epidemic of doctors' and nurses' memoirs has a book smelled so strongly of ether and carbolic. Above all, Kenneth Fearing is a specialist in diagnosing hospital life as...
Poet Fearing is no doctor. His sources were: 1) several months' firsthand and frequently queasy study of Manhattan hospitals, 2) his wife, a handsome ex-nurse, now connected with the social service department of a large Manhattan hospital. The novel owes its life to an effective transfusion of Fearing...
Not an expose, The Hospital conceives of the big modern hospital as a social microcosm where conditions become specially favorable for study of society with its hair down. The story, told through the eyes of a dozen characters, is concentrated in a maximum half hour of a sweltering summer afternoon...
Probably no hospital has ever known such concentrated drama as Author Fearing packs in. But the distortions of his picture resemble far more those produced by a microscope than defective mirrors.
The Author. A semi-legendary character, Kenneth Fearing has figured in far more novels than he has written. (The Hospital is his first.) In Albert Halper's Union Square he figures as the drunken poet. But, "Hell," declares Fearing, "I've been a character in some good novels...