Fever
Record details
- ISBN: 9781451693416
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Physical Description:
306 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2013.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-306). |
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Subject: | New York (N.Y.) History 20th century Fiction New York (State) Fiction Typhoid fever Fiction Typhoid Mary 1869-1938 Juvenile fiction Typhoid Mary 1869-1938 Fiction |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. |
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- 10 of 10 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
- 5 of 5 copies available at Little Dixie Regional. (Show)
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- 1 current hold with 10 total copies.
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Little Dixie - Huntsville | F KEANE (Text) | 2004396350 | Adult Fiction Shelves | Available | - |
Little Dixie - Madison | F KEANE (Text) | 2004396334 | Adult Fiction Shelves | Available | - |
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Little Dixie - Paris | F KEANE (Text) | 2004396342 | Adult Fiction Shelves | Available | - |
Adair County Public Library | A F Keane (Text) | 34029002071016 | Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary:
"On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life she'd aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Then one determined 'medical engineer' noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked, and identified her as an 'asymptomatic carrier' of Typhoid Fever. With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman."--Jacket.