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In her later years, while World War II was raging, Lora Wood Hughes wrote about her busy and interesting life as a nurse. The reissue of No Time for Tears, long out of print, restores her voice to human memory. During a career that took her to Hawaii, Montana, Washington, and Canada, she never stopped caring for people, and some of them would have tried anyone's patience. Among her "cases" described in lively detail here are a stingy dowager and a measle-ridden prostitute who causes her to be quarantined in a house of ill fame. The "crazy patterns" of her rich and humane life continued into World War II when, instead of resting in her home on Puget Sound, she supervised a Red Cross hospital unit.
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"This modest, forthright and humorous account of a grand American woman and nurse is as refreshing as a cool summer breeze from across her own beloved Puget Sound."—Robert Traver, Book Week (Robert Traver Book Week)
"Told with a lively, warm appreciation of people and situations. There is inspiration here and testimony of a job well done and a crowded, rounded life."—Kirkus (Kirkus)
"It is a nurse's Odyssey. . . . It is full of American color, profound in the simple manner—we'll say it is a good book and not try to say how magnificently good it is."—Saturday Review of Literature (Saturday Review of Literature)
"Told with a lively, warm appreciation of people and situations. There is inspiration here and testimony of a job well done and a crowded, rounded life."—Kirkus (Kirkus)
"It is a nurse's Odyssey. . . . It is full of American color, profound in the simple manner—we'll say it is a good book and not try to say how magnificently good it is."—Saturday Review of Literature (Saturday Review of Literature)
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- PublisherUniv of Nebraska Pr
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0803272294
- ISBN 13 9780803272293
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages305
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No Time for Tears
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University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska
(1985)
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. First Bison Book Printing 1985. 305 pages. Clean, fresh, tight and bright. A very nice copy. Seller Inventory # 0004174
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