TIME ON FIRE

Based on Evan Handler’,s hit off-Broadway play (called by The New York Times “,laceratingly funny and self-revealing”,), Time on Fire is a remarkable memoir of illness and survival, love and hope—,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 Simon’,s Biloxi Blues, Handler checked into New York Memorial’,s Cancer Center and began a bizarre, sometimes uproarious five-year journey in and out of hospitals—,“,a raucous rump through Hell”,—,only to face an equally arduous return to the life he left behind. Time on Fire is the story of Handler’,s passage into a twilight world