Fever A Novel

Name: Fever A Novel
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ISBN: 9781451693423

ISBN-10: 1451693427

ISBN-13: 9781451693423

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Authors: Mary Beth Keane

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Mary Beth Keane, named one of the 5 Under 35 by the National Book Foundation, has written a spectacularly bold and intriguing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first person in America identified as a healthy carrier of Typhoid Fever. 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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 3/18/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

MARY BETH KEANE attended Barnard College and earned an MFA from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. She was a winner of theChicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Prize in 2004 and was a 2005 Pushcart Prize nominee. She currently lives in Philadelphia with her husband and son.The Walking Peopleis her first novel.