Book 1992

Pinto and sons

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Publisher: W.W. Norton
Language: English
Published: 1992

Fiction
Gold mines and mining
Hungarian Americans
Modoc Indians
Fiction, general
California, fiction

In the fall of 1846, young medical student Adolph Pinto witnesses a demonstration of anesthesia and sets off on a lifelong quest to bring "life without pain" to the masses. A darkly comic and sweeping novel in which Pinto endures every tribulation with hope.