Toms River (book)

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Author Dan Fagin
Country United States
Language English
Subject Environmental issues in the United States, environmental science, oncology
Genre Non-fiction
Publisher Bantam
Publication date
March, 2013
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]

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References

  1. 1 2 Abigail Zuger (March 18, 2013). "On the Trail of Cancer". The New York Times. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  2. Alexander Nazaryan (May 24, 2013). "A Town Plagued by Water". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  3. "The Pulitzer Prizes | Citation". Pulitzer.org. April 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
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