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Wickett's Remedy: A Novel First edition
Myla Goldberg
Wickett's Remedy: A Novel First edition
Myla Goldberg
Lydia Kilkenny is eager to move beyond her South Boston childhood, and when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy Boston Brahmin who plans to become a doctor, her future seems assured. That path changes when Henry abandons his medical studies and enlists Lydia to help him invent a mail-order medicine called Wickett?s Remedy. Then the 1918 influenza epidemic sweeps through Boston, and in a world turned upside down Lydia must forge her own path through the tragedy unfolding around her. As she secures work as a nurse at a curious island medical station conducting human research into the disease, Henry?s former business partner steals the formula for Wickett?s Remedy to create for himself a new future, trying?and almost succeeding?to erase the past he is leaving behind.
Alive with narrative ingenuity, and tinged with humor as well as sorrow, this inspired recreation of a forgotten era powerfully reminds us how much individual voices matter?in history and in life.
384 pages
Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
Lançado | 10 de outubro de 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9781400078127 |
Editoras | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group I |
Páginas | 384 |
Dimensões | 131 × 203 × 21 mm · 294 g |
Idioma | English |
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