From a quiet turn-of-the-century village inupstate New York to war-torn London, from the bedsidesof the rural poor to the life-and-death urgency ofa great New York City hospital, this is a powerfulepic of three generations of doctors in onemagnificent family. The Farrells-dedicated, brilliant..and driven to the edge of destruction by a love nohuman force could suppress.From the Paperback edition.