The Air We Breathe (Paperback)

As the Great War sweeps the globe, the tiny town of Tamarack Lake in the Adirondack Mountains remains mostly untouched. Its inhabitants, mostly European immigrants who have come to the town`s sanitarium to recover from tuberculosis, are more interested in their small romances and melodramas. But finally, even in their remote haven, the convalescents are not free from the reaches of war. In this lyrical novel, Andrea Barrett uses some of the characters from her National Book Award-winning collection SHIP FEVER to create a sumptuous and vivid tragedy that takes place high up on a magic mountain. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.