false <![CDATA[The Air We Breathe: A Novel]]> 977705 11 <B>The exquisite, much-anticipated new novel by the author of <I>Ship Fever</I>, winner of the National Book Award.</B><BR><BR>In fall 1916, Americans debate whether to enter the European war. "Preparedness parades" march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. For all, time stands still. Prisoners of routine and yearning for absent families, the patients, including the newly arrived Leo Marburg, take solace in gossip, rumor, and&#151;sometimes&#151;secret attachments.<BR><BR>An enterprising patient initiates a weekly discussion group. When his well-meaning efforts lead instead to a tragic accident and a terrible betrayal, the war comes home, bringing with it a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. The conjunction of thwarted desires and political tension binds the patients so deeply that, finally, they speak about what's happened in a single voice.<BR><BR><I>The Air We Breathe</I>, though entirely self-contained, extends the web of connected characters begun with <I>Ship Fever</I>. 2682733 1 10 2007 The Air We Breathe: A Novel total:374|5:41|4:145|3:129|2:48|1:11| 374 1279 612 129 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 07:06:38 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 07:47:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 13:49:22 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 14:17:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 20:59:47 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 21:00:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 04 20:40:24 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 21:10:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:52:55 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:52:55 -0800 2009 The Air We Breathe brings back descendants of some of the characters introduced in Andrea Barrett's National Book Award_"winning Ship Fever (1996). Critics praise Barrett's detailed exploration of the sanatorium's claustrophobic quarters, patients' ceaseless boredom, and fearall undercut...

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