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Wickett S Remedy
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Author : Myla Goldberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Wickett S Remedy written by Myla Goldberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Boston (Mass.) categories.
Wickett S Remedy
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Author : Myla Goldberg
language : en
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Wickett S Remedy written by Myla Goldberg and has been published by Anchor Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Fiction categories.
The triumphant follow-up to the bestselling Bee Season, Wickett’s Remedy is an epic but intimate novel about a young Irish-American woman facing down tragedy during the Great Flu epidemic of 1918. Wickett’s Remedy leads us back to Boston in the early part of the 20th century and into the world of Lydia, an Irish-American shop girl yearning for a grander world than the cramped confines of South Boston. She seems to be well on her way to the life she has dreamed of when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy medical student and the scion of a Boston Brahmin family. Soon after their wedding, however, Henry shocks Lydia by quitting medical school and creating a mail-order patent medicine called Wickett’s Remedy. And then just as the enterprise is getting off the ground, the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918 begins its deadly sweep across the world, drastically changing their lives. In a world turned almost unrecognizable by swift and sudden tragedy, Lydia finds herself working as a nurse in an experimental ward dedicated to understanding the raging epidemic — through the use of human subjects. Meanwhile, we follow the fate of Henry’s beloved Wickett’s Remedy as his one-time business partner steals the recipe and transforms it into QD Soda, a wildly popular soft drink. Based on years of research and evoking actual events, Wickett’s Remedy perfectly captures the texture of the times and brings a colourful cast of characters vividly to life, including a sad and funny chorus of the dead. With wit and dexterity, Goldberg has fashioned a novel that is both charming and grand. Wickett’s Remedy announces her arrival as a major novelist. South Boston belonged to Lydia as profoundly and wordlessly as her thimble finger. Her knowledge of its streets was more complete than any atlas, her mental maps reflecting changes that occurred from season to season, day to day, and hour to hour. Each time she left 28 D Street — one among a row of identical triple-decker houses, the tenements lining the street like so many stained teeth — her route reflected this internal almanac. . . . For ten years this was enough. Then in fifth grade, Lydia saw a city map and realized her entire world was a mitten dangling from Boston’s sleeve. Across the bridge lay Washington Street — the longest street in all New England — which began like any other but then continued north, a single determined thread of cobblestone that wove itself through every town from Boston to Providence. Once Lydia saw Washington Street she knew she could not allow it to exist without her. —excerpt from Wickett's Remedy
Wickett S Remedy
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Author : Myla Goldberg
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2010-07-07
Wickett S Remedy written by Myla Goldberg and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-07 with Fiction categories.
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.
Pandemic Influenza In Fiction
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Author : Charles De Paolo
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-07-15
Pandemic Influenza In Fiction written by Charles De Paolo and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919--the worst widespread outbreak in recorded history--claimed an estimated 100 million lives globally. Yet only in recent decades has it captured the attention of historians, scientists, and fiction writers. This study surveys influenza research over the last century in original scientific and historical documents and establishes a critical paradigm for the appreciation of influenza fiction. Through close readings of 15 imaginative works, the author elucidates the contents of and the interaction between the medical and the fictional. Coverage extends from Pfeiffer's 1892 bacillus theory, to the multidisciplinary effort to isolate the virus (1919-1933), to the reconstruction of the H1N1 viral genome from archival and exhumed RNA (1995-2005), to the emergence of H5N1 and H7N9 avian viruses (1997-2014).This book demonstrates that pandemic fiction has been more than a therapeutic medium for survivors. A prodigious resource for the history of medicine, it is also a forum for ethical, social, legal, national defense and public health issues.
The Weekly Reporter
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
The Weekly Reporter written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with Law reports, digests, etc categories.
A State Of The Art Review Of Metal Finishing Waste Treatment
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Author : Battelle Memorial Institute
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
A State Of The Art Review Of Metal Finishing Waste Treatment written by Battelle Memorial Institute and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Electroplating categories.
New World Irish
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Author : J. Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-11-16
New World Irish written by J. Morgan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies.
Corpus Juris Secundum
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
Corpus Juris Secundum written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with Law categories.
Resource added for the Paralegal program 101101.
Congressional Record
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Author : United States. Congress
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Law categories.
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
The Law Times Reports
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
The Law Times Reports written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with Law reports, digests, etc categories.