ISBN: 0-88739-192-3
288 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Paperback
Price: $16.50
Hardcover
Price: $24.50
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Immortality News
Mariann Regan
Immortality News is a humorous novel about the controversial state of health care in America. In a large American city, an anonymous formula for warding off disease and extending life is mysteriously passed to select people over the Internet. Clinical trials of this formula lead to health cost debates, congressional hearings, and even a presidential commission. Meanwhile, hidden from the public, a small group of people in the same city is being chosen to share a certain milky blue drink, only to discover...
Review: "Cutting through hypocrisy like a surgeon's scalpel, Regan offers us a dissected world-Medeopolis-that is at once frightening close and comically otherworldly. This novel eerily echoes several recent stories concerning American health care fraud. With compliments to both Pyncheon and Vonnegut, Immortality News is a biting but humorous satire of our contemporary health systems-and more. It shines harsh but much-needed light into the dark workings of our society."
Michael C. White
Author of A Brother's Blood and The Blind Side of the Heart
"Regan's tale challenges even the most thoughtful among us as it pits political correctness against selfishness against moral righteousness. Read and think about the story-the time to address critical issues such as those posed by Regan's parable is not once they have emerged but instead long before, when we all have the luxury of time to sort through their complicated implications."
Laura P. Hartman
Grainger Chair of Business Ethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bio: MARIANN SANDERS REGAN teaches at Fairfield University in Connecticut. Her book of literary interpretations, Love Words, was published by Cornell University Press.
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