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Fever
New York : Scribner, 2013.
Format: Book
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description: 306 pages ; 24 cm
"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.
Subjects:
Typhoid Mary, 1869-1938 -- Fiction.
Typhoid fever -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Typhoid Mary, 1869-1938 -- Fiction.
Typhoid fever -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781451693416
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