Elizabeth Ann Scarborough was born Ma, and lives in the Puget Sound area of Washington. Elizabeth won a Nebula Award in for her novel The Healer's War, and has written more than a dozen other novels. She has collaborated with Anne McCaffrey, best-known for creating the Dragonriders of Pern, to produce the Petaybee Series and the Acorna Series/5. · E. A. Scarborough pulls you kicking and screaming through desperate war situations that you know, deep inside, must have been real, yet she makes it bearable with her "healing hand" of magic and mystery. Had I known beforehand what the book was about, I would never have read it. I was sick of the Vietnam war ages ago when it happened.5/5(5). Scarborough has a tart writing style that can both take you back to a forgotten era Set in the Vietnam era, this book is easily as cogent today as it was when it won the Nebula Award in It brings home the horror of war and its insane aftermath/5(95).
Like any good Vietnam novel, The Healer's War shows the horror of war and the way the focus of those in the middle of it becomes narrower, more limited, more tinted by the requirements of survival. What I found the most striking here was the way Scarborough highlighted the centrality of racism to the military attitude during the Vietnam war. The Healers War marks a turning point in Elizabeth Ann Scarborough's career. Her previous seven novels are humorous fantasy. In The Healers War, Scarborough draws on her own experiences as an. Biography. Elizabeth Ann Scarborough grew up in Kansas City, Kansas. She was earned a RN from Bethany Hospital School of Nursing in She was a practicing nurse for well over a decade, including 5 years as an RN in the US Army, one year of which she served in Vietnam during the eponymous war.
A literary departure for acclaimed fantasy author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer’s War draws on her personal experience as an army nurse in Da Nang to create a classic novel of the Vietnam War, enriched with a magical, mystical twist. Lt. Kitty McCulley, a young and inexperienced nurse tossed into a stressful and chaotic situation, is having a difficult time reconciling her duty to help and heal with the indifference and overt racism of some of her colleagues, and with the. The Healer's War is a science fiction novel by American writer Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in The story is about a Military Nurse during the Vietnam War. Plot. The plot revolves around Lt. Kitty McCulley, a Military Nurse during the Vietnam War. Free download or read online The Healers War pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in , and was written by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Mass Market Paperback format. The main characters of this fantasy, science fiction story are.
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