TY  - BOOK
AU  - Solzhenitsyn,Aleksandr Isaevich
TI  - Cancer ward
SN  - 9780374511999
AV  - PG3488.S692.C363 1991 
PY  - 1991///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Patients
KW  - Fiction
N1  - 2
N2  - 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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