Consumption
Subtitle: a novel
By: Kevin Patterson
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780385520744
Subjects: Inuit women; Conduct of life; Fiction
Description: Born in the 1950s in the Canadian Arctic, Victoria grows up among the nomadic Inuit until, at the age of ten, diagnosed with TB, she is sent to a southern sanitarium, where she discovers the wonders of the modern world.
Notes: "Originally published in Canada by Random House Canada, Toronto, in 2006"--T.p. verso.