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The Air We Breathe
- De: Andrea Barrett
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 20
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In the fall of 1916, Americans debate whether to enter the European war. "Preparedness parades" march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure cottages; charity patients, mainly immigrants, fill the large public sanatorium. For all, time stands still.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rich and absorbing
- De JudyK45 en 11-18-07
- The Air We Breathe
- De: Andrea Barrett
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
Rich and absorbing
Revisado: 11-18-07
I love Andrea Barrett's story collection, Ship Fever, and this new novel is also terrific: complex, absorbing and intelligent, full of history but also good characters and a good story. There are even some elements of mystery.
As in Barrett's short stories, several of this novel's main characters are people who love science. Whether professional scientists or amateurs, they live ordinary and extraordinary lives that are often distorted by gender, social class, and politics. The complex but entirely credible plot plays out the combined effects of war, mass migration, chance, and individual psychology in the lives of several appealing and interesting main characters.
The reader is very good, although occasionally he gets his accents mixed up. This is a great book for a long, long drive.
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