Mountain Time
Bernard De Voto
Mr. De Voto at a lower literary level, if a more surely successful one, with a surgeon’s story and a love story sustained by a fair amount of emotionalism. De Voto’s young Dr. Kildare is Cy Kinsman, resident at a New York hospital under Dr. McAllister, socially, medically and politically untouchable. McAllister’s surgical skill, which is indulged at the patient’s expense, remains unchecked and above criticism, and Cy, disillusioned in his profession, throws up his residency and medicine- returning home to Custis. Josephine, whom he loves, whom he had known since childhood but who had married an irresponsible author, also reaches a breaking point and leaves her husband- also goes home to Custis. There, both go through months of individual and mutual doubt, defeatism, until Jo tella Cy off for his all-or-nothing idealism, his pursuit of perfection which is really a fear of failure, and together they make a new start. With a very modern and medical vernacular, attractive characterization, this is practised and pleasurable, and its partial serialisation in Collier’s indicates its popular potential. ~ Kirkus
One very brief overt lesbian episode
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Details
| Genre | Fiction |
| Copyright Date | 1946 |
| Publication Date | 1947 |
| Publisher | Little Brown and Company |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 313 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Original Publisher | Little Brown and Company |
| BookID | 8483 |
