The Air We Breathe
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Description
Autumn, 1916. America is preparing to enter WWI, but at Tamarack State Hospital, the danger is barely felt. Here in the crisp, mountain air where wealthy tuberculosis patients recover in private cottages and charity patients, mostly European émigrés, fill the sanatorium, time stands still. Prisoners of routine and yearning for absent families, the inmates take solace in gossip, rumour and secret attachments.One enterprising patient initiates a weekly discussion group, but his well-meaning efforts lead instead to tragedy and betrayal. The war comes home, bringing with it a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. Andrea Barrett pits power and privilege against unrest and thwarted desire in a spellbinding tale of individual lives in a nation on the verge of extraordinary change.
Additional information
Weight | 0.277 kg |
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Dimensions | 2.4 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 400 |
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Year Published | 2009-4-2 |
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Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 0099519461 |
About The Author | Andrea Barrett has received a National Book Award and a MacArthur grant and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A fellow at the New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers, Barrett lives in North Adams, Massachusetts, and teaches at Williams College. |
Andrea Barrett is in a class by herself. A near-perfect equipoise between smooth storytelling and the suggestion of larger truths |
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Other text | Few writers have mastered the historical novel as [Barrett] has… Her re-creation of time and place remains glittering |
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