Cancer ward
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2000].
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536 pages ; 21 cm
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The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Ward" is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state."Cancer Ward," which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, "The Magic Mountain "by Thomas Mann, 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

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English
ISBN:
0374511993

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Translation of: Rakovyĭ korpus..
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Originally published: New York, 1969.

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APA Citation (style guide)

Solzhenit︠s︡yn, A. I. (2000). Cancer ward. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008. 2000. Cancer Ward. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich, 1918-2008, Cancer Ward. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.

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Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich. Cancer Ward. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.

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