Ship Fever

Author: Andrea Barrett

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  • : 9780006551423
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  • : 01 December 2000
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780006551423
9780006551423

Local Description

2000. A paperback copy in fine, unmarked condition.

Description

In "Ship Fever," the title novella, a young Canadian doctor finds himself at the center of one of history's most tragic epidemics. In "The English Pupil," Linnaeus, in old age, watches as the world he organized within his head slowly drifts beyond his reach. And in "The Littoral Zone," two marine biologists wonder whether their life-altering affair finally was worth it In the tradition of Alice Munro and William Trevor, these exquisitely rendered fictions encompass whole lives in a brief space. As they move between interior and exterior journeys, "science is transformed from hard and known fact into malleable, strange and thrilling fictional material" Boston Globe).