Based on Evan Handlera??s hit off-Broadway play (called by The New York Times a??laceratingly funny and self-revealinga??), Time on Fire is a remarkable memoir of illness and survival, love and hopea??shot through with anger, humor, and piercing eloquence. Evan Handler was twenty-four and already an accomplished actor when he was diagnosed with acute leukemia and told that his chances for survival were slim. Resigning his role in Neil Simona??s Biloxi Blues, Handler checked into New York Memoriala??s Cancer Center and began a bizarre, sometimes uproarious five-year journey in and out of hospitalsa??a??a raucous rump through Hella??a??only to face an equally arduous return to the life he left behind. Time on Fire is the story of Handlera??s passage into a twilight world: a place of lonely, haunting despair lit by moments of exultation and hilarity; a world where the truly horrible and the hysterically funny not only coexist but seem to become the same thing. Told with the trenchant...

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