Review
From the book jacket: Sandy Glass, a charismatic publicity-seeking oncologist, and Marion
Mendelssohn, a pure, exacting scientist, are co-directors 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 protégés, 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....
Beyond the Book
Harvard-educated
Allegra Goodman started her writing career with
Total Immersion, a
collection of short stories published in 1989; a second volume of short stories,
The Family Markowitz, followed in 1996. Her first novel,
Kaaterskill Falls,
was published in 1998 (and was one of the first books to be recommended at
BookBrowse).
Paradise Park
was published in 2001 and
Intuition in 2006. She lives in
Cambridge, Massachussets, the setting for
Intuition.
