Get a life

By Nadine Gordimer

Subjects: Fiction, medical, Ecologists, Fiction, Family relationships, Fiction, psychological, Critically ill

Description: Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he controls the trajectory of his life with the markers of vocation and marriage. But when he is diagnosed with thyroid cancer, he receives treatment that makes him radioactive and a danger to others, leading him to question his outlook on life.