Man-to-Man: Surviving Prostate Cancer.

Michael Korda. Random, $20 (224p) ISBN 0-679-44844-6

Although prostate cancer may well be "the male equivalent of breast cancer," as Korda (The Immortals) here contends, it has yet to acquire an equivalent canon of literature charting the physical and emotional tolls of the illness. This intensely candid, engaging and sharply witty memoir, akin in approach and tone to Norman Cousins's memoir of his battle with heart disease, The Healing Heart, bears witness to the soul-searching, medical options and singularly male difficulties associated with prostate cancer--and will prove an extremely valuable resource. Korda, editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, underwent a radical …