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Lädt ... The Gilded Hour (2015. Auflage)von Sara Donati (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Well-researched historical fiction, set mainly in 1880s New York City, that touches on many of the urban, social, and political issues of that time. The main character, surgeon Dr. Lilianne ("Anna") Savard, is an intelligent, independent-minded, strong woman, as is her cousin Sophie Savard, also a physician, and their Aunt Quinlan, an artist stymied by arthritis in her later years. The novel is part love story, part social commentary on issues of contraception, abortion, working conditions, bigotry, class structure, homelessness, poverty, and orphaned children. ( ) I liked this period piece well enough but not enough to continue on to the second one. Likeable characters but you have to suspend credulity to believe that there were police officers in NYC progressive enough to pursue a mad abortionist who was killing women who sought them. That was just one of the story lines in this saga of a book. Novel about women in 1883 in NYC as physicians. Also about orphans , priests and nuns, Italian families, policeman. Lots of good stuff in an exciting story. Mostly though it is about women and how difficult things were for them in 1883 as mothers, as physicians , as human beings This novel ends without resolution to the criminal case of who was butchering women seeking abortions. Apparently there is a sequel to “Tge Guilded Hour”. I enjoyed this novel although it did drag in parts It’s 1883 in old New York. Anna Savard and cousin Sophie Savard are both physicians; and while that is rare enough for women, rarer still is the fact that Sophie is bi-racial, a ‘free woman of color’ in the phrase of the times. Anna and Sophie work among the poorest of the poor, while socializing with New York’s high society. Into Anna’s world comes Jack Mezzanotte, a NYC police detective, and four immigrant orphans. The story is an immensely readable historical novel that touches on the state of medicine in the 1880s when the role of germs was just starting to be understood, the position of women, the Comstock act and Anthony Comstock himself, Italian immigrants, and the state of orphan children and the ‘outdoor poor.’ I really enjoyed this. It is not at all plot-driven although a dreadful crime is at its center. The first in a new historical series by this author. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Fiction.
Romance.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: The internationally bestselling author of Into the Wilderness makes her highly anticipated return with a remarkable epic about two female doctors in nineteenth-century New York and the transcendent power of courage and love. The year is 1883, and in New York City it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie??both graduates of the Woman's Medical School??treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they've strived for in jeopardy. Anna's work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had. Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make an unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life. For Sophie, an obstetrician and the orphaned daughter of free people of color, helping a desperate young mother forces her to grapple with the oath she took as a doctor??and thrusts her and Anna into the orbit of Comstock, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent and of anyone who dares to defy him. With its vivid depictions of old New York and its enormously appealing characters, The Gilded Hour is a captivating, emotionally gripping novel that proves Sara Donati is an author at the height of her pow Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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