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02290aam a2200361 4500 001 ABAFF9D4DAFE11EB9BE3539D58ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210702012738 008 070117s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2007271068 020 $a 1400078121 020 $a 9781400078127 035 $a (OCoLC)74441108 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Goldberg, Myla. 245 1 $a Wickett's remedy : $b a novel / $c Myla Goldberg. 250 $a 1st Anchor Books ed. 264 1 $a New York : $b Anchor Books, $c 2006. 300 $a 370 p. ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a Lydia Kilkenny is eager to move beyond her South Boston childhood, and when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy Boston Brahmin who plans to become a doctor, her future seems assured. That path changes when Henry abandons his medical studies and enlists Lydia to help him invent a mail-order medicine called Wickettâs Remedy. Then the 1918 influenza epidemic sweeps through Boston, and in a world turned upside down Lydia must forge her own path through the tragedy unfolding around her. As she secures work as a nurse at a curious island medical station conducting human research into the disease, Henryâs former business partner steals the formula for Wickettâs Remedy to create for himself a new future, tryingâand almost succeedingâto erase the past he is leaving behind. Alive with narrative ingenuity, and tinged with humor as well as sorrow, this inspired recreation of a forgotten era powerfully reminds us how much individual voices matterâin history and in life. 541 $d 20201119. 650 $a Widows $v Fiction. 650 $a Irish American women $v Fiction. 650 $a Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Patent medicines $v Fiction. 651 $a Boston (Mass.) $x Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 856 1 $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0713/2007271068-s.html $3 Sample text 856 2 $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0713/2007271068-d.html $3 Publisher description 856 2 $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0713/2007271068-b.html $3 Contributor biographical information 941 $a 1 952 $l TXPC862 $d 20210702015220.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=ABAFF9D4DAFE11EB9BE3539D58ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search