Hospital - Softcover

Rose, Marcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0517153726 ISBN 13: 9780517153727

Publisher: Random House Value Publishing, 1995

Synopsis

"Poignant...Skilled writing and complex story lines."
LIBRARY JOURNAL
Marica Rose has won legions of fans with her dazzling storytelling. The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS praised her bestseller ALL FOR THE LOVE OF DADDY for its "real people operating in a detail-rich milieu and time-frame that is woven like fine tapestry." Now, Marcia Rose brings her talents to a gripping, passionate, immensely satisfying novel of a big-city hospital, and the lives of the men and women who make it run.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Written with all the subtlety of a TV soap, Rose's new novel (after All for the Love of Daddy ) features a large cast of characters interacting in a prestigious Manhattan hospital. Kindhearted but emotionally insecure Dr. Eliot Wolfe becomes president of Harmony Hospital, which his prominent family has run for years. His driven, committed wife, Toni Romano, leaves behind her own practice in Washington to move to New York. Resentments fester, and soon, amid clashing personal agendas and professional crises, the marriage falters. Meanwhile, other characters attempt to deal with tension-fraught lives. Eliot's secretary is determined to rid her Harlem block of drug dealers; her sister, who has fulfilled her dream of becoming a doctor, is now daunted by the lives of her patients, casualties of the inner city; a chief nurse is striving to stay away from alcohol; an unscrupulous TV reporter, to whom higher ratings are more important than truth, is determined to uncover scandal behind the scenes, and a paramedic seeking the secret of his parentage makes a startling discovery. Rose mixes medical details, hospital gossip, power struggles and ethical dilemmas in a plot that never aims higher than commercial durability, but readers who like their exposure to medical issues tinged with melodrama will be entertained.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

In this new novel by the author of A House of Her Own (Ballantine, 1990), Dr. Eliot Wolfe quickly discovers how tough it is to be the new president of a large New York City hospital. He can deal with a budget crunch, union demonstrations, prima donna doctors, a controlling benefactor married to his ex-wife, and a TV reporter out to humiliate him. It's the human problems that almost break him: the resident who's raped, the brain-dead baby being kept alive by a machine, the inexplicable behavior changes of his best friend Sam, and, most painfully, a growing alienation from his adored wife, Dr. Toni Romano. Events at the hospital exacerbate the tension between them, resulting in a complex and poignant novel that shows how two people who love each other can grow apart. Skilled writing and complex storylines make this book far more rewarding than the standard hospital soap opera. A worthy purchase for popular fiction collections. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 3/15/91.
- Donna L. Schulman, Cornell Univ. Libs., New York
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0517153726
• ISBN 13: 9780517153727
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback