Reviews
"Her tone is level and undogmatic, but the news that Helen Epstein brings from the African front lines about AIDS is searing. So many lives have been lost, so much time and money wasted in badly-designed public and private campaigns against the disease. What actually works is both simple and subtle. There may be no magic bullet--there may never be a vaccine--but there are success stories, even in very poor countries. This is a landmark study. " --William Finnegan, author of Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country and A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique, Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more., "An enlightening and troubling book."--The New York Times "Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . . [A] blunt, informed critique."--Salon.com "The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa."--The Sunday Times(London) "Elegant prose, a scientific background, and a journalist's searching anecdotal eye."--Nature "Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more."--The New York Times Book Review "Epstein has a compelling thesis, and she explains it in lucid, sometimes extraordinary prose."--The Nation, "An enlightening and troubling book." -- The New York Times "Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . . [A] blunt, informed critique." -- Salon.com "The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa." -- The Sunday Times (London) "Elegant prose, a scientific background, and a journalist's searching anecdotal eye." -- Nature "Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more." -- The New York Times Book Review "Epstein has a compelling thesis, and she explains it in lucid, sometimes extraordinary prose." -- The Nation, "An enlightening and troubling book."-- The New York Times "Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . . [A] blunt, informed critique."-- Salon.com "The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa."-- The Sunday Times (London) "Elegant prose, a scientific background, and a journalist's searching anecdotal eye."-- Nature "Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more."-- The New York Times Book Review "Epstein has a compelling thesis, and she explains it in lucid, sometimes extraordinary prose."-- The Nation, Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . . [A] blunt, informed critique., "An enlightening and troubling book."-- The New York Times "Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . . [A] blunt, informed critique."-- Salon.com "The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa."-- The Sunday Times (London) "Elegant prose, a scientific background, and a journalist's searching anecdotal eye."-- Nature "Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more."-- The New York Times Book Review "Epstein has a compelling thesis, and she explains it in lucid, sometimes extraordinary prose."-- The Nation, "An enlightening and troubling book."--"The New York Times" "Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . . [A] blunt, informed critique."--"Salon.com" "" "The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa."--"The Sunday Times" (London) "Elegant prose, a scientific background, and a journalist's searching anecdotal eye."--"Nature" "Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more."--"The New York Times Book Review" "Epstein has a compelling thesis, and she explains it in lucid, sometimes extraordinary prose."--"The Nation", "An enlightening and troubling book."-- The New York Times "Helen Epstein is one of a rare species: the scientist turned storyteller. . . .[A] blunt, informed critique."-- Salon.com "The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa."-- The Sunday Times (London) "Elegant prose, a scientific background, and a journalist's searching anecdotal eye."-- Nature "Sometimes a bolt of clarity shoots out of the blue . . . as it will for readers of this book who yearn for insights on how a deadly virus now infects an estimated 25 million Africans and has killed untold millions more."-- The New York Times Book Review "Epstein has a compelling thesis, and she explains it in lucid, sometimes extraordinary prose."-- The Nation, The UN and President Bush should not just read Epstein's book, they should distribute it around Africa.
