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At an age when his contemporaries dreamed of becoming cowboys or firemen, seven-year-old Lucas Marsh already knew his life work: he would be a doctor. He was handicapped from the first. Mamma, a neurotic and mystic who believed that only the spirit could heal, hated the very idea...
Lucas Marsh is the hero of Morton Thompson's vast, sprawling novel, Not as a Stranger, a book as fantastically sincere as its hero. When Novelist Thompson died last summer at 45, he had to his credit an intense, rough-edged novel about Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, the identifier of...
When Lucas' father stopped sending money during his college pre-med course, the boy borrowed; and when he failed to borrow enough, he married for money-not much money, and not, by his standards, much of a woman. Kristina was a well-built Swedish girl from Minnesota who had...
When in school, Luke saw tarnish on his ideal: students faking their way through, professors who did not know their business, a fine professor of pathology scorned because he was a Jew. But when he went into practice as a small-town doctor's assistant, Lucas came upon more...
At novel's end, Dr. Lucas Marsh has learned that most men are compromisers, has learned to live with the facts of life without compromising too much himself. He has even learned that Kristina's virtues have it all over drawing-room talents. Most of all, Not as...