The SerpentWreathed Staff Author:Alice Tisdale Hobart Family story of twin doctors. Each had a view of how to practice their field. It deals with prejudices during and after WW2 and views on how the medical profession believed the patients were to be treated. The Serpent-Wreathed Staff is probably Alice Tisdale Hobart's finest novel and certainly her most arresting. — She has created a group of com... more »plex, passionate people, involved in intense conflict with one another and within themselves, who demand and permit the full sweep of her talent as a dramatic storyteller. These people live to their complete capacity -- live dangerous beset but usually rewarding lives -- and what happens to them becomes immensely important to the reader. They provide Mrs. Hobart with perhaps her greatest dramatic opportunity and she seizes it magnificently.« less