The air we breathe
By: Andrea Barrett.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.; Norton & Co
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780393061086
Subjects: Tuberculosis -- Patients -- Fiction.; Immigrants -- New York (State) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.; Communicable diseases -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.; Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Detached from the rest of the country on the eve of World War I, the tuberculosis-stricken residents of an Adirondack lakeside sanatorium are housed in accordance with their economic status and languish in their isolation before an enterprising patient initiates a weekly discussion group.