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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. As the war in Europe fills the news, paranoia takes hold--in ways that ...