From Publishers Weekly
The hospital milieu is accurately rendered but the characterization unsatisfying in this novel about a single mother who hovers near death after being treated incorrectly for a minor problem. "The timeliness of her theme and her adroit plotting should make this Johnson's most commercial novel; one cannot but wish, however, that the narrative were less facile and more deeply felt, " said PW.
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From Library Journal
Professor, literary critic, and author of a highly acclaimed biography of Dashiell Hammett, Johnson sets her latest novel in San Francisco at the fictional Alta Buena Hospital, focusing as she has before on the lives of the privileged. Her tale of relations among Dr. Philip Watts (handsome senior physician), Ivy Tarro (beautiful patient), and Mimi Franklin (dedicated volunteer) is, except for a few explicit phrases, a romance novel: breathless and girlish in tone, too dependent on implausible plot developments, regrettably prone to ethnic and sexual stereotyping, filled with predictable female fantasies. Not Johnson's best work by a long shot, but simple and pleasant reading. Recommended for comprehensive collections of popular fiction.
- Molly McCluer, Piedmont, Cal.Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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