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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Keane, Mary Beth.     Subjects     Typhoid Mary, d. 1938 -- Fiction.     Typhoid fever -- Fiction.     Quarantine -- Fiction.     Women immigrants -- Fiction.     Women cooks -- Fiction.     Irish Americans -- Fiction.     Carrier state (Communicable diseases) -- Fiction.     New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.     New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction     Browse Catalog     by author:      Keane, Mary Beth.       by title:      Fever / Mary Beth Ke...       by call number:      FICTION KEA     Search the Web     Keane, Mary Beth.     Typhoid Mary, d. 1938 -- Fiction.     Typhoid fever -- Fiction.     Quarantine -- Fiction.     Women immigrants -- Fiction.     Women cooks -- Fiction.     Irish Americans -- Fiction.     Carrier state (Communicable diseases) -- Fiction.     New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.     New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction       MARC Display

Fever / Mary Beth Keane. by Keane, Mary Beth. Scribner, c2013. Call #: FICTION KEA Subjects Typhoid Mary, d. 1938 -- Fiction.   Typhoid fever -- Fiction.   Quarantine -- Fiction.   Women immigrants -- Fiction.   Women cooks -- Fiction.   Irish Americans -- Fiction.   Carrier state (Communicable diseases) -- Fiction.   New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.   New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction ISBN:  9781451693416 1451693419 Edition:  1st Scribner hardcover ed. Description:  306 p. ; 24 cm. 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. The Department of Health sent Mallon to North Brother Island, where she was kept in isolation from 1907 to 1910, then released under the condition that she never work as a cook again. Yet for Mary - proud of her former status and passionate about cooking - the alternatives were abhorrent. She defied the edict. Bringing early-twentieth-century New York alive - the neighborhoods, the bars, the park carved out of upper Manhattan, the boat traffic, the mansions and sweatshops and emerging skyscrapers - Fever is an ambitious retelling of a forgotten life. In the imagination of Mary Beth Keane, Mary Mallon becomes a fiercely compelling, dramatic, vexing, sympathetic, uncompromising, and unforgettable heroine."--Publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION KEA Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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