Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008.,

Cancer ward / [print] Alexander Solzhenitsyn ; translated from the Russian by Nicholas Bethell and David Burg. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (c)1991. - 536 pages ; 21 cm.

Examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. They are seen 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 author's own. Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered.



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Cancer--Patients--Fiction.

PG3488.S692.C363 1991 PG3488