Word: serocold
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...SEROCOLD-Helen Ashton-Double- day, Doran...
Like James Joyce's famed Ulysses in its unity of time and place, unlike Ulysses in its straightforward, simple narration, Dr. Serocold tells the events of 24 hours in the life of a country doctor. At three in the morning of Dr. Luke Serocold's 65th birthday he closes the eyes of his old friend and partner; at midnight he helps his assistant at a difficult delivery. "The day that had begun with an old man's death had ended with the birth of a child." The time between is filled with his usual rounds: n visits...
...medical experience. Handsome, dark, young, she lives in London with her husband. Said he one day: it would be impossible to write a whole book, and make it interesting, about one day in the life of a country doctor. Authoress Ashton fooled him. She wrote most of Dr. Serocold on fishing trips in Ireland, scribbling in little notebooks in a microscopic hand which the rain helped make illegible to anyone else. She has also written three children's books...
...Serocold is the choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club for July...