Dr Henry Moss is a decent, committed physician whose life's work is the study of a rare genetic disorder that causes rapid ageing in children. Moss discovers a cure for the syndrome that could earn him millions and save the life of a beloved patient, but he must act quickly - and illegally.
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'...a piercing scientific and familial romance' -- New York Times Book Review
‘...Byer’s book ultimately deserves an eternal shelf-life all of its own’ -- Big Issue in the North
‘A remarkably assured novel…reads like a mid-career masterpiece' -- Publishing News
‘Poetically written yet eminently readable, moving but unsentimental...this is a book to make you realise what books should be about’ -- Daily Mail
‘…a big and staggeringly confident book’ -- Observer
‘...Byer’s book ultimately deserves an eternal shelf-life all of its own’ -- Big Issue in the North
‘A remarkably assured novel…reads like a mid-career masterpiece' -- Publishing News
‘Poetically written yet eminently readable, moving but unsentimental...this is a book to make you realise what books should be about’ -- Daily Mail
‘…a big and staggeringly confident book’ -- Observer
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Michael Byers was born in 1969, the son of a research geneticist and a computer programmer. He is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection The Coast of Good Intentions, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. Long for this World is Byers' first novel. He lives in Seattle.
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This is a wonderful novel. It concerns a geneticist, his family, his neighbours and his patients - in particular, one patient. Henry Moss is an expert in "Hickman Syndrome", a fictitious disease but very closely based on the real disease of progeria, in which children age at an accelerated rate and die of old age in their early teens. His favourite patient, William Durbin, aged 14, is close to the end. Moss thinks he may have found a cure, and much of the book concerns his progress to this end.
But there is much more to the novel than a simple will-it-work/won't it thriller. Like all really good novels, it raises questions about the nature of life, of being alive, of our relationships with others. It's written in a transparent, "non-literary" style with hardly a false note throughout its 400-odd pages - I was reminded of William Maxwell at times. Very highly recommended.
But there is much more to the novel than a simple will-it-work/won't it thriller. Like all really good novels, it raises questions about the nature of life, of being alive, of our relationships with others. It's written in a transparent, "non-literary" style with hardly a false note throughout its 400-odd pages - I was reminded of William Maxwell at times. Very highly recommended.
Format:Paperback
What a marvellous setting, Seattle in the late 1990s as the dot-com (and pharmaceuticals) boom approaches its climax. Explores the world of a geneticist, who specialises in premature ageing, and his family. And although his is the big story, we also see the world through the eyes of his wife and his daughter and son. I could identify strongly with the son trying to impress the girl who has ten other boys chasing her and suffering big put downs. The plot, centred around the young/old local patient, is riveting and the book unputdownable.
By S. Meghji
Format:Paperback
This book started so well. Unfortunately it did not continue in the same way. It tended to jump from one person to another, so that we never get to know anyone well or get any sense of continuity. It contained lot of mundane description of people not central to the book - this had me flipping pages - to find out what is happening. Alas I could not finish and never found out what happened to William!
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