Wickett's Remedy
A Novel
New York : Random House Large Print, 2005.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 560 pages ; 24 cm
Lydia is an Irish American shopgirl with bigger aspirations than your average young woman from South Boston in the early part of the twentieth century. She marries Henry Wickett, a shy medical student and the scion of a Boston Brahmin family. However, soon after their wedding, Henry abruptly quits medical school to create a mail-order patent medicine called Wickett's Remedy, and just as Lydia begins to adjust to her husband's new vocation, the infamous Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 begins its deadly sweep across the world, irrevocably changing their lives. Meanwhile, a parallel narrative explores the world of QD Soda, the illegitimate offspring of Wickett's Remedy, stolen away by Henry Wickett's one-time business partner Quentin Driscoll, who goes about transforming it into a soft drink empire.
Subjects:
Irish American women -- Fiction.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Fiction.
Patent medicines -- Fiction.
Widows -- Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
Irish American women -- Fiction.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 -- Fiction.
Patent medicines -- Fiction.
Widows -- Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0375728465
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LPF Goldberg | North Main | Large Print Fiction | In |