- Fiction, Fiction in English, Hospitals, Interns (Medicine)
As in all hospitals, the medical hierarchy of The House of God was a pyramid - a lot at the bottom and one at the top. Put another way, it was like an ice-cream cone...you had to lick your way up!Roy Basch, the 'red-hot' Rhodes Scholar, thought differently - but then he hadn't met Hyper Hooper, out to win the most post-mortems of the year award, nor Molly, the nurse with the crash helmet.
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Comic, relentless, ironic and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Samuel Shem
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 413
- Publisher
- Droemer Knaur Verlag, Delta Trade Paperbacks, Bodley Head
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781409084396
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