Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
Richard Hooker
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN: 0688149553
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth.
The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, "a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees."
For fans of the movie and the series alike, here is the original version of that perfectly corrupt football game, those martini-laced mornings and sexual escapades, and that unforgettable foray into assisted if incompleted suicide--all as funny and poignant now as they were before they became a part of America's culture and heart.
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sound of the jeep breaking the silence, a cold rain started to fall, almost obscuring the jagged, nearly bare hills on either side of the valley. They came to Ouijongbu, a squalid shanty town with a muddy main street lined with tourist attractions, the most prominent of which, at the northern outskirts, was The Famous Curb Service Whorehouse. The Famous Curb Service Whorehouse, advantageously placed as it was on the only major highway between Seoul and the front lines, had the reputation of
patients who survived but also on the surgeons who contributed to that survival. The first of the Swampmen to give outward evidence of what they had all been through was Hawkeye Pierce, and the first man to get caught in the fall-out was the anesthesiologist—Ugly John. A good anesthesiologist is essential to any important surgical effort. Without one, the greatest surgeon in the world is helpless. With one, relatively untalented surgeons can look good. If the man at the head of the table
of Trapper and Duke. “Hell, no,” said Duke. “We figured you all had him under wraps. How’d he get away?” “I don’t know,” said Haskell, “but that boy is way out. It’s imperative that I find him.” “If I were you, I’d search the waterfront,” suggested Trapper. “He might be looking for mermaids.” “How about you fellows helping out? You said he meant everything to you. I should think you’d help me find him before he harms himself or someone else.” “If he’s all that crazy, the hell with him,” said
to take advantage of their rush on Trapper when he passes.” “God help me,” Trapper said. “And me, too,” Duke said. “In other words,” Spearchucker said, “the idea is to run the legs off ’em that first half. I think that will be all the edge I will require, gentlemen.” “Right,” Henry said. “Imagine that Hammond, trying to pull something like that.” On the day of Thanksgiving the kick-off was scheduled for 10:00 a.m., so shortly after the crack of dawn the 4077th MASH football team, the Red
going to do? I didn’t think I was sent over here to run a kindergarten.” “If I was y’all,” said Duke, “I wouldn’t do a goddamn thing.” “Sure,” Henry said. “That’s the obvious answer, but I have a hospital to run and you know how hard replacements are to get, and I have to make the ones we get as useful as I can. This guy was just starting to shape up, but this week he got four letters, all saying the same thing but each one worse than the one before. She’ll drive him nuts.” “I don’t know,”