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Goldberg, Myla.
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Irish American women -- Fiction.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Fiction.
Patent medicines -- Fiction.
Widows -- Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
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Goldberg, Myla.
Irish American women -- Fiction.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Fiction.
Patent medicines -- Fiction.
Widows -- Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
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Wickett
's
remedy
: a
novel
/ Myla Goldberg.
by
Goldberg, Myla.
Random House Large Print, c2004.
Call #:
LP FICTION GOL
Subjects
Irish American women -- Fiction.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Fiction.
Patent medicines -- Fiction.
Widows -- Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780375728464
Edition:
1st large print ed.
Description:
541 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"The triumphant follow-up to the bestselling "Bee Season".
Summary:
"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
Wickett
's
Remedy
, and just as Lydia begins to adjust to her husband's 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 epidemic - through the use of human subjects. Meanwhile, a parallel narrative explores the world of QD Soda, the illegitimate offspring of
Wickett
's
Remedy
, stolen away by Henry
Wickett
's one-time business partner Quentin Driscoll, who goes about transforming it into a soft drink empire."--Inside jacket.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
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