"Kings Row is one of the great post-war American best-sellers. It was also made into a famous movie. The reasons for its continuing popularity are abundant: it is the intriguing story of a small mid-western town at the turn of the century, peopled by a varied and colorful cast of characters. The novel unfolds as it is observed by Parris Mitchell, the handsome, sensitive outsider, an idealistic doctor who is a keen observer of the best and the worst in human nature." ~Saturday Review The book is so eventful, so swift in pace... there is sadism, suicide, murder, embezzlement, political corruption, miscegenation, adultery, nymphomania, and psychopathic greed... but also loyalty and decency and idealism... A grand yarn, full of the sap of life." ~The New York Times Book Review