A Savage Place by Frank G. Slaughter (1964) Hardcover

A Savage Place
A novel of what happened when a brilliant young surgeon returned to his old home town.
by Frank G. Slaughter
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Copyright:  1964
Book Club Edition

The high cause of modern medicine becomes dramatically entangled with bitter social and personal conflicts in this novel set in a Hudson River town where the present has not yet succeeded in outrunning the past.

As a boy, Mike Constant had delivered groceries to Rynhook, the great patron castle on the hill. Now, after ten years, he was returning to New Salem as the staff surgeon at the new hospital, but the arrogant summons he received from Marcella Van Ryn, "the Duchess of Rynhook," brought him swiftly back into the past. Ten years should have been enough to sever all contact with the people he had known; the Duchess's brilliant but psychopathic son, Paul; Sandra West, whom he had loved without hope; her brother, Jason, then a dazzling successful actor -- now a fallen idol, come home to die. But the passing of time had only served to complicate his relations with these people, and they in turn would complicate the job he had to do at New Salem Memorial; to give the hospital the transfusion of Hippocratic ethics it needed in order to receive professional accreditation.

A doctor-turned-writer, Frank G. Slaughter once again calls upon his medical experience to provide authenticity for an intense and provocative modern novel filled with intrigue, romance, and excitement.

Condition: Used. Acceptable condition. Hardcover. Dust cover. Dust cover edges show edge wear and tearing.  Dust cover flaps and pages may be tanned and darkening from age. Previous owner's name and date are written on the front endpaper. There's a sleeve pasted to the front endpaper with an index card. It's how the previous owner kept track of her books. There's a book club flyer tucked inside the front cover. Binding in beginning to split between he covers and endpapers, book opens to saved places, but pages are in tact.

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