The hospital ship

Martin Bax

earliest edition we have, 1976 New Directions, 1976 223 pages

Picador

Out of Martin Bax's appalling vision of contemporary civilization in collapse sails The Hospital Ship. The British author's first novel is the account of an atomic-powered ark attempting to salvage a "remnant" from a world whose recent wars have resulted in the total loss of both social and individual stability. At first, skilled medical teams from the ironically named ship, the Hopeful, pick up casualties from what...

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Hospital Ship edition · 2013 · Essential Works · 9781906615598
Hospital Ship edition · 2013 · Essential Works · 9781906615536
Hospital Ship edition · 2013 · Essential Works · 196 pages · 9781906615604
The hospital ship edition · 1977 · Pan Books · 204 pages
The hospital ship edition · 1976 · Cape · 223 pages
The hospital ship edition · 1976 · New Directions · 223 pages

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