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Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune is a new biography by Roderick Stewart and Sharon Stewart that contains a wealth of additional details about the last months of Bethune’s life. The book also answers many questions about the controversial, charismatic surgeon and humanitarian who lived by his favourite quotation of Walter Pater: “Not the fruit of experience, but the experience itself is the end…. To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
The biographies Roderick Stewart penned previously, Bethune and The Mind of Norman Bethune, though the best in their times, seem now to be stepping stones towards this rock-solid and riveting book. Stewart came across recently released archival materials — two memoirs by people who had worked alongside Bethune in Spain and in China, letters and reports by Bethune, and other fresh sources that required a whole new book.
Certainly the heroic character of Bethune takes on a darker tone in Phoenix, as if the biographer finally saw his lifelong subject in all his complexities, bravery, and foolhardiness.
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