THE AIR WE BREATHE.
by Barrett, Andrea
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in illustrated wrappers.
- Seller
-
Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: Norton,, (2007). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Novel set in the fall of 1916 as "Americans debate whether to enter the European war. 'Preparedness parades' march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At 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." But the well-intended gesture meaning of a newly arrived patient leads to both a to a tragic accident and a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. SIGNED on the title page and dated 6/2/07 - that is, before publication. 297 pp plus a family tree.
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- Seller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 82966
- Title
- THE AIR WE BREATHE.
- Author
- Barrett, Andrea
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in illustrated wrappers.
- Publisher
- Norton,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2007)
- Keywords
- women authors, world war i fiction, tb, tuberculosis, arc, uncorrected proof,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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