Word: leukemias
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...that's before she gets the bad news: her younger sister Madeleine, who has everything to live for, has leukemia. That's the setup in Elisabeth Robinson's The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, a novel that's likely to be the first pleasant literary surprise of 2004. Robinson wisely chooses to tell Olivia's story through her letters and e-mail, allowing her to shift with unnerving speed from hilarious satire--in letters to Robin Williams and Danny DeVito begging them to look at scripts--to devastatingly painful accounts of Madeleine's decline. Robinson does both...
...infectious sense of humor - and Calendar Girls is busting out with all of them. Based on the true story of the U.K.'s Rylstone Women's Institute - think bake-offs and quilting circles - whose members posed for a tastefully nude calendar in 1999 to raise money for leukemia research, Calendar Girls (out in the U.K. this week, the rest of Europe soon after) is a celebration of mature beauty with a giddy playfulness usually reserved for twentysomething romantic comedies. We don't know what director Nigel Cole said to convince some of Britain's most beloved actresses to bare...
...absurd you might think they are. "Some of those imagined possibilities are so frightening that people feel embarrassed to share them," says Cope. "Your thoughts could run like this: This is probably only a cold; I hope it's not pneumonia; I sure hope I haven't got leukemia." If you don't share these fears with your doctor--and give him or her a chance to rule out worst-case scenarios--you may continue to have nagging doubts about both the diagnosis and your doctor's skill, says Cope...
Hospital employees are not immune to the violence. Ghalab Tawil, 42, a Palestinian from Shuafat, took a job as a janitor at Hadassah so he could be closer to his daughter Iman, 13, during leukemia treatment at the hospital. He died in the explosion that wounded Averbach. Passions ran high after one of Hadassah's doctors, Shmuel Gillis, was shot dead in the West Bank by Palestinians in February 2001. To avoid clashes with victims' families, an Arab social worker usually stationed in the E.R. no longer works there immediately after terrorist attacks. E.R. technician Assaly is also wary...
...literary scoop, Bowker reports that the teenaged Eric Blair made a wax effigy of a hated fellow student at Eton, contemplated sticking pins in it but settled for tearing off a leg. The victim, an older boy named Philip Yorke, promptly suffered a broken leg and was dead of leukemia within months. Orwell's remorse, Bowker suggests, reinforced his sense of guilt over a great-grandfather's Jamaican slaveholdings and his father's career in the service of opium and imperialism. Perhaps to expiate all that shame, he bypassed university and became a policeman in Burma...