I liked the technique used of filling in the blanks in a similar way to a flashback and as the novel moves through Mary's life the picture becomes clearer. Overall I enjoyed the writing style, the book moved too fast in places for my liking and I would of preferred to know more of Alfred's story. There is nothing I love more than historical fiction based on reality. When I realised that the novel was based on an historical event my mind went into overdrive. I had never heard of "Typhoid Mary" before reading this book, but was familiar with Irish immigration into New York and other areas in the early 1900's. This Review: 9.0/10 Value for Money: Level of Realism: Rereadability: Lose Track of Time:
Mary Beth Keane, named one of the 5 under 35 by the National Book Foundation, 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. In the imagination of Mary Beth Keane, Mary Mallon becomes a fiercely compelling, dramatic, vexing, sympathetic, uncompromising, and unforgettable heroine.
With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman.īringing early-twentieth century New York alive - the neighbourhood's, the bars, the park carved out of upper Manhattan, the boat traffic, the mansions and sweatshops and merging skyscrapers, Fever is an ambitious retelling of a forgotten life. 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. 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. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder.Ĭanny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef.
On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Available: March 2013 Fever product reviews No fee was accepted by KIWIreviews or the reviewers themselves - these are genuine, unpaid consumer reviews. Disclosure Statement FULL DISCLOSURE: A number of units of this product have, at some time, been supplied to KIWIreviews by Penguin Random House or their agents for the purposes of unbiased, independent reviews.
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