Mary Hooper: Newes from the Dead, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Newes from the Dead
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- Verlag:
- St. Martins Press-3PL, 07/2010
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780312608644
- Artikelnummer:
- 5349125
- Umfang:
- 274 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 352 g
- Maße:
- 216 x 140 mm
- Stärke:
- 16 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 1.7.2010
- Hinweis
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Klappentext
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WRONGED. HANGED. ALIVE? (AND TRUE!)
Anne can't move a muscle, can't open her eyes, can't scream. She lies immobile in the darkness, unsure if she'd dead, terrified she's buried alive, haunted by her final memory¿of being hanged. A maidservant falsely accused of infanticide in 1650 England and sent to the scaffold, Anne Green is trapped with her racing thoughts, her burning need to revisit the events¿and the man¿that led her to the gallows.
Meanwhile, a shy 18-year-old medical student attends his first dissection and notices something strange as the doctors prepare their tools . . . Did her eyelids just flutter? Could this corpse be alive?
Beautifully written, impossible to put down, and meticulously researched, Newes from the Dead is based on the true story of the real Anne Green, a servant who survived a hanging to awaken on the dissection table. Newes from the Dead concludes with scans of the original 1651 document that recounts this chilling medical phenomenon.
Newes from the Dead is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Biografie
Mary Hooper is a very popular writer for children and young adults. Mary's brilliant historical novels, At the House of the Magician, By Royal Command, At the Sign of the Sugared Plum, Petals in the Ashes and The Extraordinary Life and Times of Eliza Rose have a huge fan base, as do her contemporary novels for teenagers, such as the prequel Megan. Mary is very much in demand for her events at literary festivals and schools. She lives in Henley-on-Thames.
