Wickett's Remedy (Random House Large Print) - Hardcover

Goldberg, Myla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375728465 ISBN 13: 9780375728464

Publisher: Random House Large Print, 2005

Synopsis

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. (Historical Fiction)

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Review

"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

About the Author

Myla Goldberg is the author of the bestselling Bee Season, which was named a New York Times Notable Book in 2000 and is being 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, McSweeneys, and failbetter. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Large Print
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0375728465
• ISBN 13: 9780375728464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 545