Against Whom?
Book Details
| Title: | Against Whom? | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1954 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber Limited | ||||||||||
| Tags: | fiction, Switzerland, sanatorium | ||||||||||
| Description: | Again a story of the inside life of a T.B. sanitarium. The setting is Switzerland—near Davos—and there are glimpses of the stark beauty of snow-shrouded and vast, and occasional glimpses of skiing, chamois hunting, the perilous ascent of an icy toboggan slide. But in the main the story centers in the hospital itself, where two divergent influences are brought to bear when a spoiled, neurotic girl, intent on being the focus of real and imagined romance, and a saintly priest of the Anglican order, come as patients in seriously advanced stages of the disease, and are shortly involved in the already complex situations on the staff. The head doctor, whose sense of justice outweighs his humanity, is succeeding—he thinks—in insulating both himself and his wife from participation in normal living. Two other doctors, both one time members of the Underground Resistance forces, are caught up in the situation. And Caroline, the girl, serves as catalyst in the troubled situation.—Kirkus Reviews [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Comments: | Also published as The Secret Stair. | ||||||||||
| Downloads: | 23 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 187  |
Author Bio for Bottome, Phyllis
In her 60-year career she published 33 novels, several of them bestsellers, short stories, essays, biographies and memoirs. She lectured widely in Britain and America. She was translated into nine languages. Her 1937 novel The Mortal Storm predicted the horrific consequences of Fascism. MGM made a film of it, starring James Stewart — the studio’s first openly anti-Nazi film. It premiered in America in 1940, just as Hitler’s troops entered Paris, and was arguably influential in persuading the US to abandon its isolationist stance.
—The Spectator
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