The Air We Breathe Audio Book CDs Unabridged

The Air We Breathe Audio Book

The Air We Breathe
Author: Andrea Barrett
Reader: Jeff Woodman

In 1916, war rages in Europe. Far away, at a New York tuberculosis sanatorium, the patients focus on illness, rumor, and – sometimes – secret attachments. When a weekly discussion group results in tragedy and betrayal, the war comes home, along with anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. By the author of The Voyage of the Narwhal. "[Woodman's reading offers] a wide variety of fascinating characters who create a memorable, almost cinematic, experience."—AudioFile » Read More

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M9X315

UNABRIDGED

Audio CDs ( 8 )

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$29.95

Publish Date: 09/24/2007
ISBN: 9781602833159

Synopsis:

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. By the National Book Award-winning author of Ship Fever. Simultaneous.

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Fiction Themes » Conflicts & Dualities » Sickness & Health
Fiction Themes » Literary Genres & Types Of Novels » Historical Fiction
Fiction Themes » Medicine & Health » Tuberculosis
Fiction Themes » Settings » Sanatoriums
Fiction Themes » Settings » Small Towns & Villages
Fiction Themes » Types Of Characters » Immigrants
Fiction Themes » War & Military » World War I
Health & Fitness » Diseases / Contagious » Communicable Diseases

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