The Cider House Rules
by John Irving
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Homer Wells had been raised from birth in the boys' division of the orphanage at St. Cloud's, Maine. Now a young man, he was the protege of Dr. Wilbur Larch, the orphanage physician and director. Dr. Larch provides care and comfort to the troubled mothers who seek his help, either by delivering and taking in their unwanted babies or by performing illegal abortions. Meticulously trained in medicine by Dr. Larch, Homer assists in the former, but draws the line at the latter. Then a young man brings his beautiful fiancee to Dr. Larch for an abortion, and everything about the couple beckons Homer to the wide world outside the orphanage--a world whose complexities will variously challenge, confound, and confirm the lessons he learned at St. Cloud's.
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American fiction (fictional works by one author), Physicians, fiction, Maine, fiction, Fiction, Physicians, Orphanages in fiction, Orphanages, Abortion, Physicians in fiction, Abortion in fiction, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, In library, collectionID:bannedbooks, Young menPlaces
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The Cider House Rules
2000, Thorndike Press
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The cider house rules: a novel
1997, Ballantine Books
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The cider house rules: a novel
1985, Morrow, William Morrow
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First Sentence
"In the hospital of the orphanage-the boy's division at St. Cloud's, Maine-two nurses were in charge of naming the new babies and checking that their little penises were healing from the obligatory circumcision."
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Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorite orphan, Homer, who is never adopted.
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