Breathe : a novel

Title:

Breathe : a novel

Author:

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.

Summary:

"Amid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are uprooted and husband and wife each embarks upon a nightmare journey. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood - and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her own."-- Provided by publisher

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

364 pages ; 24 cm

Subject Term:

Married people -- Fiction.

Sick -- Fiction.

Terminally ill -- Fiction.

Diagnostic errors -- Fiction.

Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Widows -- Fiction.

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