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With extraordinary insight, Allegra Goodman brilliantly explores the intricate mixture of workplace intrigue, scientific ardor, and the moral consequences of a rush to judgment. She has written an unforgettable novel.
Dial Press
March 2006
Featuring: Sandy Glass; Robin Decker
352 pages
ISBN: 0385336128
Hardcover
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Hailed as "a writer of uncommon clarity" by the New
Yorker, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has
dazzled readers with her acclaimed works of fiction,
including such beloved bestsellers as The Family
Markowitz and Kaaterskill Falls. Now she returns
with a bracing new novel, at once an intricate mystery and a
rich human drama set in the high-stakes atmosphere of a
prestigious research institute in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Sandy Glass, a charismatic
publicity-seeking oncologist, and Marion Mendelssohn, a
pure, exacting scientist, are codirectors of a lab at the
Philpott Institute dedicated to cancer research and
desperately in need of a grant. Both mentors and
supervisors of their young postdoctoral prot"g"s, Glass and
Mendelssohn demand dedication and obedience in a competitive
environment where funding is scarce and results elusive. So
when the experiments of Cliff Bannaker, a young postdoc in a
rut, begin to work, the entire lab becomes giddy with
newfound expectations. But Cliff"s rigorous colleague "and
girlfriend" Robin Decker suspects the unthinkable: that his
findings are fraudulent. As Robin makes her private doubts
public and Cliff maintains his innocence, a life-changing
controversy engulfs the lab and everyone in it.
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