Where the hero gets a little advance warning, and is able to fly to a moderately remote lodge in the north, taking his wife and son. He survives the winter by putting an entire guest cabin inside the lodge building.
Things go well enough until a stranger arrives with the disease, and his wife and son die.
Then he wanders along through various adventures...
That's all I can remember.
Do you know this title or the author?
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