num_pages: 254
description: 1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams.
language: English
title: Ship Fever
titlecomplete: Ship Fever
genres: Short Stories, American, Short Story Collection, Historical Fiction, Historical, Canada, Literary Fiction, Nature, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 4051
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Flamingo