![]() ![]() ![]() Tracing the business of cancer - a catch-all noun for a multiple disease of infinite variety but with a common origin - the progress of the malady is meticulously dissected out through anecdote, fact, history,science, quackery, coincidence, serendipity, elation, catastrophe, failure, humanity, hubris and a thousand other perspectives. As things stand this shorter version won the Pulitzer Prize. Oh that he hadn't been because it is tantalizing to wonder what was snipped out. His original draft was three times longer than the finished product and he was cajoled into savage excision before publication. The author is an erudite oncologist and this shows both in his knowledge of the topic and his ability to tell a story. The subject of this (close on 500 page) book is the life and times of cancer. ![]()
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