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Wickett's Remedy

A Novel

Myla Goldberg

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English
Anchor Books
15 January 2007
From the author of the bestselling Bee Season, the magnificently imagined story of a winning young Irish American heroine's determined progress through an all but forgotten historical tragedy--Boston during the 1918 influenza

epidemic.

First time in paperback.

Lydia Kilkenny is eager to move beyond her South Boston childhood, and when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy Boston Brahmin who plans to become a doctor, her future seems assured. That path changes when Henry abandons his medical studies and enlists Lydia to help him invent a mail-order medicine called Wickett's Remedy. Then the 1918 influenza epidemic sweeps through Boston, and in a world turned upside down Lydia must forge her own path through the tragedy unfolding around her. As she secures work as a nurse at a curious island medical station conducting human research into the disease, Henry's former business partner steals the formula for Wickett's Remedy to create for himself a new future, trying-and almost succeeding-to erase the past he is leaving behind.

Alive with narrative ingenuity, and tinged with humor as well as sorrow, this inspired recreation of a forgotten era powerfully reminds us how much individual voices matter-in history and in life.
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Imprint:   Anchor Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 131mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   294g
ISBN:   9781400078127
ISBN 10:   1400078121
Pages:   384
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Myla Goldberg is the author of the bestselling Bee Season, which was named a New York Times Notable Book in 2000 and made into a film, and, most recently, of Time's Magpie, a book of essays about Prague. Her short stories have appeared in Harper's, McSweeney's, and failbetter. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews for Wickett's Remedy: A Novel

Brilliant. . . . A wonderfully courageous second novel. -Newsday Remarkable. . . . A historically credible account of the period just after America entered the First World War, when 'the Spanish Lady' laid waste to Boston and much of the rest of the country. -Salon Her second novel is of a piece with [Bee Season] in its invention and stylistic skill. . . . A warmhearted, unusual and intelligent consideration of a world about which few people know. -San Francisco Chronicle An engrossing look at how one young woman grows through personal losses at a time when so many lost so much. -The Philadelphia Inquirer


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