The Air We Breathe.(Brief article)(Book review)

Publication: The New Yorker

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Barrett's novel is narrated in the first-person plural by the patients of a tuberculosis sanitorium in the Adirondacks in 1916, some of whom are drawn from a previous collection of short stories. The invalids, their lives thwarted by illness, poverty, and social convention, have little to do but gossip....

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