Wickett's Remedy : A Novel (signed)

New York:: Doubleday, 2005. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket would be FINE but for just a touch of rubbing on the rear panel. NOT price clipped (24.95). No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Bound in the original maroon boards, with a maroon spine lettered in bright gold. From the Dust Jacket: "The triumphant follow-up to the bestselling BEE SEASON, WICKETT'S REMEDY is a brilliant novel about the dream of progress... Goldberg leads us back to Boston in the early part of the twentieth century and into two completely captivating worlds. One is that of Lydia, an Irish-American shopgirl with bigger aspirations than your average young woman from South Boston. She seems to be well on her way to the life she has dreamed of when 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. In a world turned almost unrecognizable by swift and sudden tragedy, Lydia finds herself working as a nurse in an experimental ward dedicated to understanding the raging epidemic -- through the use of human subjects... Based on years of research and evoking actual events, WICKETT'S REMEDY perfectly captures the texture of the times and brings a colorful cast of characters vividly to life... With dazzling dexterity, Goldberg has fashioned a novel that beautifully combines the intimate with the epic. WICKETT'S REMEDY announces her arrival as a major novelist.". Signed by Author (on title page - signature only). First Edition, Second Printing.. Hard Cover. Near Fine condition./Near Fine dust jacket.. 8vo. (viii), 326pp..