TY - BOOK AU - Marshall, Owen, TI - Harlequin rex AV - PR9639.3.M275 H37 1999b U1 - 823/.914 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Auckland, New Zealand PB - Vintage KW - Epidemics KW - New Zealand KW - Fiction KW - Sanatoriums KW - New Zealand fiction KW - 20th century N2 - With the advent of the new millennium comes a new disease--Harlequin Rex--and a variety of reactions to it. The men and women in this novel find themselves caught up in a terrifying novelty, and all must cope as best they can. Their response is influenced as much by the past as by present events, however, those formative things that lie far back in us all: guilt, loyalty, compromise and love--especially love ER -