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"Goodman's characters and story are luxuriously
imagined.... [She] meticulously charts the insidiousness of
doubt, showing how it metastasizes." — Newsday
"Superb.... a delicate analysis of how an ethics scandal filters
through the sensibility of brilliant and brilliantly realized
characters. It's a tricky operation that Goodman performs with a
precision of a scientist, and the flair of an artist at the top
of her game. A." — Entertainment Weekly
"This is a story of love and science both gone wrong, and Goodman
handles the narrative and its wide web of details with efficiency
and grace, bringing a novelist's eye to bear on a realm too often
ignored."— O Magazine
"Powerful.... [An] extremely engaging novel that reflects the
stops and starts of the scientific process, as well as its
dependence on the complicated individuals who do the work.... A
truly humanist novel from the supposedly antiseptic halls of
science."— Publishers Weekly
"This brilliant novel shows a world of labs and researchers which
seems unfamiliar to some of us, yet it's a world ly
relevant to our existence—our fallibility and vulnerability. Page
by page the story shimmers with ins into the subtlety and
complexity of human psychology and relationships. Allegra Goodman
writes like a master." —Ha-Jin, National Book Award winning
author of WAITING and WAR T
"What a feat, to pull off a large story of science and politics
in the here and now, with beautifully drawn and compelling
characters, with all the large and small details of their lives.
What a gift not to pass judgement on any of them, to love each
character equally and fairly. The ending is perfection." — Jane
Hamilton, author of THE OF THE WORLD and THE BOOK OF RUTH
“Goodman’s interests—if not always her sympathies—lie with her
all-too-human albeit brilliant creations....her portrayals of
these scientists, in and out of their lab coats, are of the
richest texture. These characters are only as beset by vanity,
selfishness, egotism as the rest of us. But in the fiercely
competitive, high-stakes world of cancer research, it’s enough
for careers–and lives–to be destroyed.” — Vogue
“The best major American novel of the year so far” — The New York
Sun
“Winningly original...In smartly unfolding scenes of scientific
intrigue, political maneuvering, romance, and complex alliances,
these memorably drawn characters play out their personal and
professional dreams and deceptions. Goodman transports us in a
fugue state of first-class storytelling from the bare-s
basement of the Philpott to the gleaming halls of Congress and
back,Ébring[ing] us that much closer to the heart of the matter:
what it means to be–merely, magnificently–human.” — Elle
"Believe it or not, a thriller and a page-turner about scientific
fraud. Brilliant." — The Guardian
“There’s something of the breadth and generosity of a Victorian
“three-decker” novel in the skill with which Goodman threads her
ingenious plot through an ambitious mobilization of terse
confrontations and detail-crammed scenes...Top-notch in every
respect. A superlative novel.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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About the Author
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Allegra Goodman’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, Good
Housekeeping, Slate, and the American Scholar. Named by the New
Yorker as one of the twenty best writers under forty, she is also
the recipient of a Whiting Award and the Salon magazine award for
fiction. She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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