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Fever / Mary Beth Keane.
"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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- ISBN: 9781451693416 :
- ISBN: 1451693419 :
- ISBN: 9781451693423 (pb)
- Physical Description: 306 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2013.
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| Subject: | Typhoid Mary, d. 1938 > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951 > Fiction. Typhoid fever > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. Quarantine > New York (State) > New York > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. |
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Mary Beth Keane attended Barnard College and the University of Virginia, where she received an MFA. She was awarded a John S. Guggenheim fellowship for fiction writing, and has received citations from the National Book Foundation, PEN America, and the Hemingway Society. She is the author of The Walking People, Fever, and Ask Again, Yesâa New York Times bestseller and a Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Summer Reads Pick. Ask Again, Yes has been sold in twenty-two languages. She lives in New York with her family.
