-Hamilton Cain,
Minneapolis Star-Tribune"If you are not already in awe of biology, The Song of the Cell might get you there. It is a masterclass." -Suzanne O'Sullivan,
The Guardian"Audacious...mesmerizing...reliably engaging... Mukherjee enthusiastically instructs and... delights-all the while hustling us across a preposterously vast and intricate landscape." -David A Shaywitz,
The Wall Street Journal"Mukherjee is a passionate, expert guide... He weaves together charming histories of scientists, his own, sometimes painful, memories of patients and friends lost to illness, and the complex science of what makes cells tick." -Hannah Kuchler,
The Financial Times"For anyone who wants to understand the building blocks of their own bodies-which everyone surely should-this is an informative and entertaining introduction." -The Economist
"Mukherjee has found an especially roomy subject for his roving intelligence. . . . I was repeatedly dazzled by [Mukherjee's] pointillist scenes, the enthusiasm of his explanations, the immediacy of his metaphors." -Jennifer Szalai,
The New York Times"Mukherjee is such an engaging writer, alert to nanoscopic beauty and the potential deceptions of metaphor. . . . [
The Song of the Cell is] written with compassionate warmth and humor, and the personal glimpses into an ordinary scientific life and the dedication that goes with it." -Steven Poole,
The Telegraph"
The Song of the Cell blends cutting-edge research, impeccable scholarship, intrepid reporting, and gorgeous prose into an encyclopedic study that reads like a literary page-turner." -
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