The Air We Breathe -- Andrea Barrett

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      First British Edition, Hutchinson, 2008, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap - Historical Fiction - 297 pp.

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

      In the fall of 1916, America prepares for warbut 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, andsometimessecret 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 medicineeven in the art of war. Her richly complex men and women, with their passions and vulnerabilities, engage and haunt us.

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