The air we breathe
Subtitle: a novel
By: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780393333077
Subjects: Patients; Immigrants; Tuberculosis; Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.); History; Communicable diseases; 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.
Notes: Includes a discussion guide.