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Fleshmarket / (Record no. 6664)

000 -LEADER
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CONTROL NUMBER
control field 00006855
CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field OCoLC
DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 200603141004
FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 030528r20042003nyu d 000 1 eng
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2003011441
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 038573154X
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0385901925 (GLB)
CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Transcribing agency DLC
Modifying agency IG#
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-- SX@
GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE
Geographic area code e-uk-st
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number [Fic]
Edition number 22
LOCAL FREE-TEXT CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number Morgan, N.
AUTHOR NAME
AUTHOR NAME Morgan, Nicola,
TITLE STATEMENT
Title Fleshmarket /
Statement of responsibility, etc Nicola Morgan.
VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title Flesh market.
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Delacorte Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 208 p. ;
Dimensions 22 cm.
GENERAL NOTE
General note Originally published: London : Hodder Children's Books, 2003.
SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy. Annotation. Edinburgh, 1822. Young Robbie is just eight years old when he witnesses his mother's agonizing pain and then death from the removal of a breast tumor during public surgery at the hands of one savage surgeon, Dr. Knox. The sounds of his mother's piercing cries haunt Robbie as he and his hapless father and baby sister try to go on. But life proves bitter when Robbie's father loses his business and disappears. Years of poverty go by as Robbie cares for his sister in the Edinburgh slums. Fueled by anger and grief, the teenaged Robbie seems to be heading for a life on the wrong side of the law when he helps the men providing "the butcher Knox" with dead bodies for his medical research. For years, Robbie thinks of Knox as his mother's killer and wants revenge. He's convinced that Knox is involved in a murderous trade in bodies for experimentation and plans a confrontation. It will take time to see the motives behind Knox's corrupt methods. Perhaps there will be a way to give some meaning to his mother's tragic death after all.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Physicians
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Poverty
ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type 02. English Fiction
LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
d F MOR
c 314

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