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Fever / Mary Beth Keane.
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."--Dust jacket.
Record details
- 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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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Gibsons Public Library | FIC KEAN (Text) | 30886000512729 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
