Andrea Barrett

Related Books

1 - Ship Fever and Other Stories (Jan-1996)
2 - The Air We Breathe (Oct-2007)

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  Lucid Stars
  

  • Aug-1988
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  Secret Harmonies
  

  • Sep-1989
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  Andrea Barrett’s novels have received resounding critical acclaim, inspiring comparisons to Gail Godwin and Anne Tyler. In Secret Harmonies, she creates a wonderful portrait of a family struggling to make sense of their lives in the rural hills of ...

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  The Middle Kingdom
  

  • Feb-1991
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  Barrett's two previous novels won her comparisons to Gail Godwin and Anne Tyler. The Middle Kingdom--now available in trade paper--is the story of a dutiful wife in an unhappy marriage who accompanies her husband on a business trip to China. But once...

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  The Forms of Water
  

  • Jun-1993
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  At the age of eighty, Brendan Auberon -- formerly of the Order of Our Lady of the Valley, now confined to a nursing home -- has one last wish: to see his 200 acres overlooking what used to be Paradise Valley, before the villages were drowned to provi...

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  Ship Fever and Other Stories
  

  • Jan-1996
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  1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

  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. Interweaving historical and fictional characte...

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  The Voyage of the Narwhal
  

  • Sep-1998
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  "A glistening narrative, crammed full of rich, pictorial description and tingling suspense." -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Book Review An intoxicating story of the thrills of exploration, the fallacy of discovery, and the inevitable costs...

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  Servants of the Map
  

  • Feb-2002
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  "Gemlike stories that sparkle with intelligence and fire." -- O, The Oprah Magazine A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, this wonderfully imagined collection from the "genius enchantress" (Karen Russell) author of Ship Fever, winner of the National Bo...

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  The Air We Breathe
  

  • Oct-2007
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  In fall 1916, Americans debate whether to enter the European war. "Preparedness parades" march and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. W...

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  Ship Fever
  

  • Mar-2013
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  1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. 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. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, the...

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  Archangel
  

  • Aug-2013
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  Winner of the National Book Award for her collection of stories Ship Fever, Andrea Barrett has become one of our most admired and beloved writers. In this magnificent new book, she unfolds five pivotal moments in the lives of her characters and in th...

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  Natural History
  

  • Sep-2022
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  Finalist for the Story Prize Longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction A BookPage and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A masterful collection of interconnected stories from the "genius enchantress" (Karen Russell) author of Ship Fever, w...

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Award-Winning Books by Andrea Barrett

Ship Fever and Other Stories
1996 National Book Award -- Fiction