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Country United States Publication date March, 2013 Pages 560 Page count 560 | 4/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Hardback) Originally published 19 March 2013 Publisher Bantam Books Genre Non-fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Subject Environmental issues in the United States, environmental science, oncology Awards Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Similar Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction winners, Chemical industry books, Non-fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American author Dan Fagin. It is about the dumping of industrial pollution by chemical companies in Toms River, New Jersey beginning in 1952 through the 1980s, and the epidemiological investigations of a cancer cluster that subsequently emerged there. The book won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, the 2014 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the 2014 National Academies Communication Award.
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