{"product_id":"an-ellipse-of-skin","title":"An Ellipse Of Skin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's the winter of 1969-70, the nation is bitterly divided over the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ewar raging in Vietnam\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and Dr. Joe Cansoni, a bright young pathologist-in-training at Boston's premier \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHarvard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e teaching hospital, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMassachusetts General Hospital (MGH)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, is examining a routine skin biopsy under his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003emicroscope\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Joe learns that this patient, a renowned \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eanti-war activist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, has died suddenly and unexpectedly-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eautopsy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereveals a brain turned to mush! Looking again at that seemingly harmless \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eskin biopsy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Joe is stunned to see \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003etiny worms burrowing deep into blood vessels\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e . . . he seeks out his old high school crush, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBoston Globe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereporter Kate McCannon, for help. Joe and Kate uncover a nationwide plot to assassinate anti-war protestors, then find themselves as targets. Is our own government behind it? Evading all peril, they must find a solution, and through their hunt for the killers, Joe wins Kate's heart and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ecomes-of-age\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as a scientist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAN ELLIPSE OF SKIN is a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e real-science thriller, an American Science Thriller of the Vietnam era\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, written by a scientist. The author, Paul Boor, M.D., is a pathologist, scientist, and professor at the oldest \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003emedical school\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e west of the Mississippi, in Galveston, Texas. AN ELLIPSE OF SKIN explores how one must overcome the destructive influences of war, and one's own human frailties, to become a scientist.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is an i\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003enternational\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e component of AN ELLIPSE OF SKIN; the novel is set in the years of the Vietnam War, when antiwar activity rattled the United States and the world with massive and violent antiwar demonstrations, the Invasion of Cambodia in 1970 by the U.S. military, and the Kent State Shootings. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCambodian genocide\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of 1978 is a key plot element of the novel. That horrific genocide claimed over 1.5 million victims, under the cruel rule of madman \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePol Pot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Today, skeletal remains buried in 23,745 documented mass graves in Southeast Asia bear witness to what is known as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe Killing Fields\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Publish Date - 05\/01\/26 - Paperback","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54195214221622,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8714\/8342\/files\/IMG-5505.jpg?v=1783453594","url":"https:\/\/thenandnowbookshop.com\/products\/an-ellipse-of-skin","provider":"Then \u0026 Now Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}