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The Dress Lodger
by Holman, Sheri
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0871137534
- ISBN 13
- 9780871137531
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Atlantic Monthly Press/Grove Atlantic, Inc., 2000. CC6 - A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear primarily in the form of some very light soiling on the outside paper edges. A novel set in cholera-stricken Sunderland, England, circa 1831 is based on fact. The main character is a potter's assistant by day and prostitute by night. The woman has a son with his heart on the outside, a rare case of ectopia cordis. A doctor recently arrived in town makes a pact with her to help her son survive in exchange for a fresh supply of dead bodies for the doctor's dissections. 291p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 6"x9".
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- Bookseller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SCW08762
- Title
- The Dress Lodger
- Author
- Holman, Sheri
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0871137534
- ISBN 13
- 9780871137531
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press/Grove Atlantic, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Ficton Literary Fiction Historical Great Britain England Suspense Medical History 1831 Prostitute Prostitute Dress Lodger Dress Lodgers Ectopia Cordis Doctor Doctors Medical History Medicine Dissection Dissections Human Anatomy Disease Cholera Epidemic Ch
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Historical; Fiction: Historical / England Historical Fiction;
- Size
- 6"x9"
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