Fever
By: Mary Beth Keane
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press Large Print Core; Thorndike Press large print core series
Publisher: Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Waterville, Maine
Language: eng
Number of pages: 551
ISBN-13: 9781410458728
Subjects: Fiction; Typhoid fever; Carrier state (Communicable diseases); Public health surveillance; Irish; Women cooks; Large type books; Emigration and immigration; History; Roman; Amerikanisches Englisch
Description: On the eve of the twentieth century, a courageous, headstrong Irish immigrant named Mary Mallon worked her way up the domestic-service ladder to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. She was sought after by the New York aristocracy -- until one determined "medical engineer" identified Mallon as an asymptomatic carrier of Typhoid Fever and made her a hunted woman.