Toms River (book)
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| Author | Dan Fagin |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Environmental issues in the United States, environmental science, oncology |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Bantam |
Publication date | March, 2013 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 560 |
| ISBN | 978-0-553-80653-3 |
| 363.7209749/48 | |
| LC Class | 2012-017030 |
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American author Dan Fagin.[1] It is about the dumping of industrial pollution by chemical companies in Toms River, New Jersey beginning in 1952 through the 1980s,[2] and the epidemiological investigations of a cancer cluster that subsequently emerged there. The book won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.[3] Abigail Zuger, writing in The New York Times, said it was "surely a new classic of science reporting".[1]
Editions
- Dan Fagin (March 19, 2013). Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation. Bantam. ISBN 978-0553806533.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link) - Audiobook narrated by Dan Woren, published by Random House Audio, March 19, 2013
- Ebook editions
References
- ^ a b Abigail Zuger (March 18, 2013). "On the Trail of Cancer". The New York Times. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
- ^ Alexander Nazaryan (May 24, 2013). "A Town Plagued by Water". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes | Citation". Pulitzer.org. April 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
External links
- The Diane Rehm Show, NPR, April 2013
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