This thorough look into cancer over the ages offers the complete story of every challenge and every advance. Many individual battles personalize the story and serve as examples. Although I have members of my family who have battled cancer (my father had kidney cancer, my brother testicular cancer, and my niece had leukemia), I listened to this book from a privileged perspective. I have not had to endure the terror and the trauma of such a diagnosis. I agree with Adam Hochschild who writes, “Mukherjee joins the first rank of those rare doctor-authors who can wield a pen as gracefully as a scalpel.”
Friday, December 11, 2020
Book Review: The Emperor of All Maladies
The Emperor of All Maladies won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. Its author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, is a Rhodes scholar and a graduate of Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. By the end of this monumental work, I was waxing a bit blurry-eyed (or should I say eared, since I listened) at all the acronyms, medication names, etc. They blended together and my interest flagged. But overall, it was a worthwhile experience (even on audio). I appreciated Mukherjee’s book on The Gene, so I knew what I was getting into.
Labels:
audio books,
book review,
cancer,
non-fiction
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