Fever / Mary Beth Keane.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781451693416 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 1451693419 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9781451693423 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1451693427 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 306 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2013.
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Summary, etc.: | "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"--Dust jacket. |
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Subject: | Typhoid Mary, d. 1938 > Fiction. Typhoid fever > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > History > 20th century > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. |
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- 11 of 26 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 0 of 1 copy available at Sprague Public Library - Baltic.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Sprague Public Library - Baltic | FIC KEANE (Text) | 33680141507996 | Adult Fiction | On holds shelf | - |