THE HEALER'S WAR

by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland: Doubleday, 1988 . Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. ... in her finest single novel to date ... an altogether more complex kind of storytelling unfolds. The protagonist of the book is a nurse in Viet Nam; Scarborough's descriptions of events there are of a piece with those found in the work of Bruce McAllister and Lucius Shepard; and the central premise -- and in this

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