| #1122849 in Books | 1994-10-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x1.00 x5.50l,.97 | File type: PDF | 336 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Merrick's best book! Kate Austen is a character you won't forget|By Lisa Kearns|I've read all of Elliott Merrick's books, and loved them all. But Northern Nurse is his best one, in my opinion. It's written in first person, as if his wife Kate were telling the story. And in fact she did tell him the story and he wrote the book.
Kate was a young Australian nurse lo|About the Author|Elliott Merrick is the author of eight books, four drawing on his experiences in Labrador. Merrick farmed, worked for the Office of War Information during World War II, and taught at the University of Vermont and Black Mountain College. Merrrick
"Every word of it I enjoyed, and I don't think that there is a single change to be made in it," wrote legendary editor Maxwell Perkins when he read the manuscript of Northern Nurse in 1941.
The public agreed, keeping it on the New York Times bestseller list for 17 weeks. Now a new edition of this classic is available from The Countryman Press.
By turns lyrical, comic, and genuinely moving, Northern Nurse tells the sto...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Northern Nurse (Regional Interest) | Elliott Merrick. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
