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The Air We Breathe
Monday, October 22, 2007
Pulitzer Prize-winner Andrea Barrett's latest novel, The Air We Breathe, revisits characters from her 1996 National Book Award–winning collection Ship Fever. Set in an Adirondack lake community on the eve of World War I, the story follows the wealthy patrons of a tuberculosis hospital and the poor residents of a nearby sanitarium as they come together and move apart in line with the world changing around them.
Purchase The Air We Breathe at amazon.com.
Event: Andrea Barrett will be in conversation with Tatyana TolstayaMonday, October 22 at 8 pm
The 92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue, at 92nd Street
For tickets, visit the 92nd Street Y website.
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