Cancer Ward

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1991
Edition: Reprint

Description: 536 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalins death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the authors own: Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered. Translated by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg.

ISBN: 9780374511999