The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Picador Classic

Part of the Five Foot Bookshelf

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Part of the Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf.
70 books, one life-changing collection.

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With an introduction by author of The Tidal Zone, Sarah Moss

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her knowledge - became a multimillion-dollar industry and one of the most important tools in medicine. Yet Henrietta's family did not learn of her 'immortality' until more than twenty years after her death, with devastating consequences . . .

Rebecca Skloot's fascinating account is the story of the life, and afterlife, of one woman who changed the medical world for ever. Balancing the beauty and drama of scientific discovery with dark questions about who owns the stuff our bodies are made of, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is an extraordinary journey in search of the soul and story of a real woman, whose cells live on today in all four corners of the world.

Now a HBO film starring Oprah Winfrey and Rose Byrne.

'No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book.' - Hilary Mantel, Guardian

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Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9781509877027
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
Edition: Part of the Five Foot Bookshelf
DEWEY: 616.02774092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 464
Weight: 364g
Height: 198mm
Width: 133mm
Spine width: 30mm