Intuition

Allegra Goodman

From Shelf: The 2009 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist

LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME TRUST BOOK PRIZE 2009Now in promotable papebrack, Allegra Goodman's brilliantly original bestseller Intuition is a maginficently dramatic character-driven novel, at once an intricate mystery and a rich human drama in the tradition of The Corrections.

A charismatic doctor and a rigorous scientist are co-directors of a cancer research lab. They demand nothing less than complete dedication and obedience from their young proteges. In this high-pressure setting, one young man's experiments begin to show exciting results. At first the entire lab is giddy with expectation. But his colleagues become suspicious, and soon an all-too-public controversy engulfs the lab and everyone in it...Intuition is a rich and compelling human drama about the quest for 'truth', that asks: who can you trust when you aren't even sure you can trust yourself?

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