Hosack's Folly: A Novel of Old New York by Gillen D'Arcy Wood

Hosack's Folly: A Novel of Old New York

Gillen D'Arcy Wood

408 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

emotional reflective slow-paced

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A broiling summer in the 1820s, and the specter of yellow fever hangs over New York City. The eminent physician David Hosack (who as a young man attended Alexander Hamilton at his fatal duel with Aaron Burr) struggles to head off a disastrous epid...

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