Name: Ship Fever: Stories
ISBN: 9780393316001

Andrea Barrett

A collection of stories that consider the struggles of love and science includes the title work, in which a young Canadian doctor, treating Irish immigrants who have been driven out by the Great Famine, experiences one of history's most tragic epidemics

Ship Fever: Stories

Sarah Sammis

Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett is a collection of eight short stories all based around science or medicine. The title story, "Ship Fever" is the longest of the set, being more of a novella than a short story and it rounds out the book. It was my least favorite.

My favorite of them is "Rare Bird" where two women set out to prove Lineas's theory wrong regarding swallow behavior in the winter. He says they hibernate under the frozen lakes. They believe that they migrate.

The stories included in this volume are:

 * The Behavior of the Hawkweeds
 * The English Pupil
 * The Littoral Zone
 * Rare Bird
 * Soroche
 * Birds with No Feet
 * The Marburg Sisters
 * Ship Fever

Ship Fever: Stories

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