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"What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass.
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Plot-driven, cool, resolved and effortless.
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Workman Publishing, Inc., Tantor and Blackstone Publishing, Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781665226387
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Lydia Kang is an author of young adult fiction, adult fiction and non-fiction, and poetry. She graduated from Columbia University and New York University School of Medicine, completing her residency and chief residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. She is a practicing physician who has gained a reputation for helping fellow writers achieve medical accuracy in fiction. Her poetry and non-fiction have been published in JAMA, The Annals of Internal Medicine, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and Great Weather for Media. She believes in science and knocking on wood, and currently lives in Omaha with her husband and three children.
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