Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

✍ Scribed by Fagin, Dan

• Book ID: 107825322
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780345538611

✦ Synopsis

**"A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology,Toms River is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize--winning **_The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
_
The riveting true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River melds hard-hitting investigative reporting, a fascinating scientific detective story, and an unforgettable cast of characters into a sweeping narrative in the tradition of A Civil Action, The Emperor of All Maladies, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

One of New Jersey's seemingly innumerable quiet seaside towns, Toms River became the unlikely setting for a decades-long drama that culminated in 2001 with one of the largest legal settlements in the...