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Dreaming of a better life for herself, Lydia, an Irish-American shopgirl from South Boston, gets her chance when she marries medical student Henry Wickett, the scion of a Boston Brahmin family, but her life is turned upside down when Henry quits medical school to promote a patent medicine and the world is swept by the devastating Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918. 75,000 first printing.
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"A rich historical re-creation whose energy and ingenuity evoke memories of EL Doctorow's classic Ragtime, Stephen Milhauser's Pulitzer Prize winner Martin Dressler and Thomas McMahon's forgotten picturesque mini masterpiece McKay's Bees. A fine novel .... And a quantum leap forward for the gifted Goldberg."
--"Kirkus Reviews" (starred)
"An epic story that is sure to become a classic .. Like Bee Season, this sorrowful, humorous and tender novel utterly satisfies. Congratulations to Goldberg on another masterpiece.
--"Library Journal" (starred)
Praise for" Bee Season":
"Bee Season is a profound delight, an amazement, a beauty."
--Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth
"An impressive debut. . . . Goldberg is a gifted writer."
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--"Kirkus Reviews" (starred)
"An epic story that is sure to become a classic .. Like Bee Season, this sorrowful, humorous and tender novel utterly satisfies. Congratulations to Goldberg on another masterpiece.
--"Library Journal" (starred)
Praise for" Bee Season":
"Bee Season is a profound delight, an amazement, a beauty."
--Jane Hamilton, author of A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth
"An impressive debut. . . . Goldberg is a gifted writer."
--"Kirkus Reviews"
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"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"
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.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0385513240
- ISBN 13 9780385513241
- BindingHardcover
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Synopsis: In a multidimensional, intricately wrought narrative, Myla Goldberg leads us back to Boston in the early part of the twentieth century and into two completely captivating worlds. One is that of Lydia, an Irish American shopgirl with bigger aspirations than your average young woman from South Boston. She seems to be well on her way to the life she has dreamed of when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy medical student and the scion of a Boston Brahmin family. However, soon after their wedding, Henry abruptly quits medical school to create a mail-order patent medicine called Wicketts Remedy, and just as Lydia begins to adjust to her husbands new vocation, the infamous Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 begins its deadly sweep across the world, irrevocably changing their lives. In a world turned almost unrecognizable by swift and sudden tragedy, Lydia finds herself working as a nurse in an experimental ward dedicated to understanding the raging epidemicthrough the use of human subjects. Meanwhile, a parallel narrative explores the world of QD Soda, the illegitimate offspring of Wicketts Remedy, stolen away by Henry Wicketts one-time business partner Quentin Driscoll, who goes about transforming it into a soft drink empire. Throughout the novel we hear from a chorus of other voices who offer a running commentary from the books margins, playing off the ongoing narrative and cleverly illuminating the slippery interplay of perception and memory. Based on years of research and evoking actual events, Wicketts Remedy perfectly captures the texture of the times and brings a colorful cast of characters vividly to lifenone more so than Lydia, a heroine as winning and appealing as Eliza, the beloved spelling champion of Bee Season. With dazzling dexterity, Goldberg has fashioned a novel that beautifully combines the intimate and the epic. Wicketts Remedy announces her arrival as a major novelist. Seller Inventory # ABE-1634414368841
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