Time on Fire My Comedy of Terrors Author:Evan Handler Evan Handler was 24 when he waqs diagnosed with leukemia and told that his chances for survival were slim. He checked into Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and began a bizarre, sometimes uproarious 5 year journey in and out of hospitals--"a raucous romp through Hell"--only to face an equally arduous return to the life he left behind. The ... more »hospital was a world where the truly horrible and the hysterically funny not only coexist, but seem to become the same thing. It was the absurdity of fighting for life in a place where death is what is most expected, amid a health care system on the brink of madness. This book is the testament to the bravery and the endurance of the human spirit.« less