AMOSOFF, Nikolai - Notes From The Future - (Hardcover in Wrapper)

Did belong to a library before, book and wrapper remained very good though - 1972 - Translated from the Russian by George St. George - Published by Jonathan Cape - Same edition Google image used.   >>>   Professor Amosoff, the Russian laboratory scientist who wrote a journal of two procedures in The Open Heart, here converts another of science's triumphs over nature via hypothermia and anabiosis into a novel, of sorts. The idea is often muffled by the instrumentation which is recorded with such efficient precision. Ivan Nikolaevich, a professor of physiology, 47, is doomed to die (leucosis) but is intent on securing a moratorium. . . perhaps by the time he is thawed the disease will have been conquered. After preliminary unsuccessful test efforts on dogs Ivan ends his notes as he enters his frozen state. Twenty-two years later he returns to live--a bare landscape--his mistress has died and he has only one associate. But then there's Anna who gives meaning to the present--more than he bargained for as he is left with a child. . . responsibility. . . immortality (the ironic coda). Until then Professor Amosoff's laboratory vista of longevity offers very cold comfort indeed even if the nature of the paraclinical enterprise assures a certain curiosity in its outcome.    (Kirkus)