Fiebre : una novela sobre Mary Tifoidea
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New York : HarperOne, 2020.
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Primera edición.
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Cottonwood Public Library - SPFIC - Spanish Collection - Fiction
KEANE, MARY FIE
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Published
New York : HarperOne, 2020.
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Book - Regular Print
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Spanish

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En 1883, con apenas quince años, Mary Mallon abandonó Irlanda para forjarse un futuro en Nueva York. Valiente y obstinada, logró cumplir el sueño de convertirse en cocinera, ascendiendo desde los más bajos escalafones del servicio doméstico. Con el tiempo, y gracias a sus aptitudes culinarias, se la disputarían las familias aristocráticas de Nueva York. Pero esa independencia, tan infrecuente para una mujer de su época, resulto poco duradera. Mary había dejado un rastro de fiebre tifoidea en las casas donde trabajo. Cuando un ingeniero sanitario la identificó como la primera portadora asintomática de la enfermedad, es decir la primera persona que sin desarrollar la enfermedad puede contagiar a otra, Mary pasó a ser conocida como Mary Tifoidea, a un tiempo persona célebre y mujer vilipendiada por infectar a miembros de las mejores familias.
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"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 of English publication.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Keane, M. B., & Keane, M. B. (2020). Fiebre: una novela sobre Mary Tifoidea (Primera edición.). HarperOne.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Keane, Mary Beth and Mary Beth. Keane. 2020. Fiebre: Una Novela Sobre Mary Tifoidea. HarperOne.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Keane, Mary Beth and Mary Beth. Keane. Fiebre: Una Novela Sobre Mary Tifoidea HarperOne, 2020.

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Keane, Mary Beth,, and Mary Beth Keane. Fiebre: Una Novela Sobre Mary Tifoidea Primera edición., HarperOne, 2020.

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