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Wickett's Remedy

By Myla Goldberg

Wickett's Remedy Contemporary literature

Wickett's Remedy

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2006-10-10
Publication Date:
2006-10-10
Publisher:
Knopf
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1400078121
ISBN13:
9781400078127
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
427 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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