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题名/责任者:

The frozen river : a novel / Ariel Lawhon.

版本说明:

First edition.

出版发行项:

New York : Doubleday, 2023.

ISBN:

9780385546874

载体形态项:

432 pages : map ; 25 cm.

丛编说明:

The Good Morning America book club

丛编统一题名:

The Good Morning America book club.

个人责任者:

Lawhon, Ariel, author.

个人名称主题:

Ballard, Martha,-1735-1812-Fiction.

论题主题:

Midwives-Fiction.

论题主题:

Murder-Investigation-Fiction.

论题主题:

Diaries-Fiction.

论题主题:

Eighteenth century-Fiction.

论题主题:

Historical fiction.

论题主题:

Biographical fiction.

论题主题:

Diary fiction.

论题主题:

Detective and mystery fiction.

地理名称主题:

Kennebec River Valley (Me.)-Social life and customs-18th century-Fiction.

地理名称主题:

Maine-History-1775-1865-Fiction.

中图法分类号:

I712.45

摘要附注:

A historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town's most respected gentlemen -- one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own. Over the course of one winter, as the trial nears, and whispers and prejudices mount, Martha doggedly pursues the truth. Her diary soon lands at the center of the scandal, implicating those she loves, and compelling Martha to decide where her own loyalties lie.

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