The Healers War (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—extrasensory powers
- Time of Work: During the Vietnam War
- Setting: Vietnam and the United States
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1960’s, United States or Americans, Extrasensory perception or powers, Vietnam War, War, Nursing or nurses, Vietnam or Vietnamese people, Talisman or magical object
- Locales: United States, Vietnam
The Plot
Lieutenant Kitty McCulley, a twenty-one-year-old Kansas girl, wants to provide good service as a U.S. Army nurse in Vietnam, but she has difficulty adjusting to military bureaucracy and the horrifying wounds of American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians. When she almost kills a young Vietnamese girl with an accidental overdose of medication, she is reassigned to a new hospital unit. She is much happier there because she has the opportunity to develop relationships with her patients.
Kitty meets a Vietnamese holy man named Xe. At first, she does not particularly...
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