Very Good Paperback Popular Library, 1964. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Well-kept copy in bright covers, with pages tight and unopened. The title spine lettering is faded, and the pages are tanned, as is usual in these pocketbook editions. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library. . Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: The compelling events of this dark and powerful novel take place in the restless, humming world of a hospital in a New England city. Nineteen-year-old Angelo DeMarco, who males twice-daily rounds among the patients to take orders for the pharmacy where he works, shelters himself from life behind a barricade of toughness and arrogance. Sammy, the new orderly who suddenly emerges one night from the shadows of the children's ward, is a human being unlike anybody Angelo has previously known. The encounter between the contemptuous skeptic from a devout Catholic family and the Jew who seems at first no more than a wild, eccentric clown has profound consequences for them both after the shocking drama of a few summer weeks.