{"product_id":"fever-paperback-3","title":"Fever - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Beth Keane\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAsk Again, Yes, \u003c\/i\u003ea novel about the woman known as \"Typhoid Mary,\" who becomes, \"in Keane's assured hands...a sympathetic, complex, and even inspiring character\" (\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMary Beth Keane 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing 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--\u003ci\u003eFever \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 18, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760731685152,"sku":"9781451693423","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/87fcf03aae5437386aa8dabd01401cae.webp?v=1780188284","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/fever-paperback-3","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}