My Notorious Life

My Notorious Life

AngličtinaEbook
Manning, Kate
Scribner
EAN: 9781451698084
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Exquisitely written and richly detailed, My Notorious Life is a marvel. Kate Mannings rags-to-riches Dickensian saga brings to vivid life the world of nineteenth-century New York City, in all its pitiful squalor and glittering opulence. I loved this novel. Christina Baker Kline, New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train A brilliant rendering of a scandalous historical figure, Kate Mannings My Notorious Life is an ambitious, thrilling novel introducing Axie Muldoon, a fiery heroine for the ages. Axies story begins on the streets of 1860s New York. The impoverished child of Irish immigrants, she grows up to become one of the wealthiest and most controversial women of her day.In vivid prose, Axie recounts how she is forcibly separated from her mother and siblings, apprenticed to a doctor, and how she and her husband parlay the sale of a few bottles of Lunar Tablets for Female Complaint into a thriving midwifery business. Flouting convention and defying the law in the name of womens reproductive rights, Axie rises from grim tenement rooms to the splendor of a mansion on Fifth Avenue, amassing wealth while learning over and over never to trust a man who says trust me. When her services attract outraged headlines, Axie finds herself on a collision course with a crusading officialAnthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. It will take all of Axies cunning and power to outwit him in the fight to preserve her freedom and everything she holds dear. Inspired by the true history of an infamous female physician who was once called the Wickedest Woman in New York, My Notorious Life is a mystery, a family saga, a love story, and an exquisitely detailed portrait of nineteenth-century America. Axie Muldoons inimitable voice brings the past alive, and her story haunts and enlightens the present.
EAN 9781451698084
ISBN 1451698089
Typ produktu Ebook
Vydavatel Scribner
Datum vydání 10. září 2013
Stránky 448
Jazyk English
Země Uruguay
Autoři Manning, Kate