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Ship Fever and Other Stories
by Andrea Barrett
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Science and love are the subjects of these short stories and a novella. Winner of the 1996 National Book Award.
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9780393038538,
Hardcover,
W W Norton & Co Inc,
1996
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Publisher Notes
A collection of stories that consider the struggles of love includes the title work, in which a young Canadian doctor, treating Irish immigrants who have been driven out by the Great Famine, experiences one of history's most tragic epidemics. By the author of The Middle Kingdom.
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"...Barrett explores the territory between the head and the heart, between science and sentiment, not to show how the two terrains rival one another, but how much they overlap....At their best, these seven stories and title novella burn with the 'fever' of the book's title..."
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