![]() ![]() In the tradition of Alice Munro and William Trevor, these exquisitely rendered fictions encompass whole lives in a brief space. And in "The Littoral Zone," two marine biologists wonder whether their life-altering affair finally was worth it. In "The English Pupil," Linnaeus, in old age, watches as the world he organized within his head slowly drifts beyond his reach. In "Ship Fever," the title novella, a young Canadian doctor finds himself at the center of one of history's most tragic epidemics. ![]() Interweaving historical and fictional characters, they encompass both past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. "The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. SCARCE FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Due to the use of white cloth and white paper for the jacket the book is rarely found this clean and bright. 8vo, publisher s white cloth lettered in gilt, in the original dustjacket. ![]()
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