Shannon's Way (1948)

by A. J. Cronin

Series: Robert Shannon (Book 2)

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I read this in a single night when I was sixteen (and then had to go to school the following day). The tale of a young scientist struggling to crack a difficult problem and the school teacher who loves him is perhaps a little dated but I enjoyed it. I was devastated when Robert Shannon finally made his breakthrough only to be beaten to publication by someone else; it has a happy ending but not the one that I'd been expecting. Another one that's long overdue for a re-read. (

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Robert Shannon (Book 2)

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1948

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1948)

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On a damp evening in December, the fifth of that month, in the year 1919--a date which marked the beginning of a great change in my life--six o'clock had struck from the University tower and the soft mist from the Eldon River was creeping round the Experimental pathology buildings at the foot of Fenner Hill, invading our long work-room that smelled faintly of formalin, and was lit only by low, green-shaded lamps.

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Shannon's Way is a 1948 novel by Scots author, A. J. Cronin. It continues the story of Robert Shannon from Cronin's previous novel, The Green Years (1944). Robert is now a medical researcher, who is so devoted to solving a deadly new epidemic that he risks his health, his security, and the love of the woman who sustains him, medical student Jean law. Told with Cronin's characteristic narrative power and sensitivity to human emotion, Shannon's Way has enchanted millions of readers since its first publication by Little, Brown in 1948.

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