Andrea Barrett

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Vermont

A Novel

"An evocative panorama of America...on the cusp of enormous change" (Newsday) by the National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever.


In the fall of 1916, America prepares for war--but in the isolated community of Tamarack Lake, the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. Prisoners of routine, they take solace in gossip, rumor, and--sometimes--secret attachments. But when the well-meaning efforts of one enterprising patient lead instead to a tragic accident and a terrible betrayal, the war comes home, bringing with it a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment.

Andrea Barrett masterfully sets this luminous novel in a historical period of great progress in science and medicine--even in the art of war. Her richly complex men and women, with their passions and vulnerabilities, engage and haunt us.

Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction

Format - Paperback

Condition - Good

Listed - A year ago

Views - 16

Wishes - 1

Ships From - Vermont

Est. Publication Date - Dec 2008

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