Fever
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Fever
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The work Fever represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in LaGrange County Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- Label
- Fever
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Beth Keane
- Subject
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- trueOstracism
- trueQuarantine
- trueSeparated couples
- trueSick women
- trueTyphoid Mary, 1869-1938
- Typhoid Mary, 1869-1938 -- Fiction
- trueTyphoid fever
- Typhoid fever -- Fiction
- trueWomen cooks
- true1900s (Decade) -- 1900 -- 1909
- trueBiographical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- trueCommunicable diseases
- trueConsequences
- trueCooks
- trueHistorical fiction
- Historical fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction
- trueNew York City -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- On the eve of the twentieth century, Irish 15-year-old Mary Mallon emigrated to New York City to climb the rungs of the domestic-service ladder until she became a cook. Sought after by New York aristocracy, Mary seemed to have achieved the life she'd aimed for--until a medical engineer noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked. Labeled an "asymptomatic carrier" of typhoid fever and now a hunted woman, Mary spends three years in isolation on distant island before being faced with a stark choice: to remain on the island in perpetua, or to never cook--and never have her former life--again. "Typhoid Mary's" choice is well-known, but the rest of her story is not
- Award
- Library Journal Best Books 2013
- Cataloging source
- BT
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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