Cancer Ward de Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich; Bethell, Nicholas, and Burg, David (Translated by) - 1991

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. xiv, 560 pages; 21 cm. Good+, Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. "Cancer Ward 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. 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 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. " - Publisher.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.