As the oldest unadopted child at St Cloud’s orphanage, Homer Wells strikes up a profound and unusual friendship with Wilbur Larch, the orphanage’s founder, a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether. What he learns from Wilbur takes him from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to an adult life running a cider-making factory.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 1986
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Pages: 704
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780552992046
ISBN 10: 0552992046