Quarantine

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480416369

<DIV><B>A &ldquo;thrilling&rdquo; novel of an eighteenth-century New England town and a powerful family caught in the grip of an epidemic (<I>The Boston Globe</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> The year is 1796, and a trading ship arrives in the vibrant&#160;trading town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. But it&rsquo;s a&#160;ghost ship--her entire crew has been decimated by a virulent&#160;fever which sweeps through the harbor town, and Newburyport&rsquo;s&#160;residents start to fall ill and die with alarming haste.&#160;Something has to be done to stop the virus from spreading&#160;further. When physician Giles Wiggins places the port under&#160;quarantine, he earns the ire of his shipbuilder half-brother,&#160;the wealthy and powerful Enoch Sumner, and their eccentric&#160;mother Miranda. Defiantly, Giles sets up a pest-house, where&#160;the afflicted might be cared for and separated from the rest&#160;of the populace in an attempt to contain the epidemic.<BR /><BR /> As the epidemic grows, fear, greed, and unhinged obsession&#160;threaten the Sumner family&mdash;and the future of Newburyport.<BR /><BR /> From &ldquo;a rare and gifted writer,&rdquo;&#160;<I>Quarantine</I>&#160;is an&#160;eloquent and dramatic portrait of a city plagued by mysterious pestilence&mdash;as the isolation of the quarantine reveals the darker side of human nature (Andre Dubus III).</DIV><DIV>&#160;</DIV>