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The virgin cure : a novel

Set on the streets of Lower Manhattan in 1871, The Virgin Cure is the story of Moth, a girl abandoned by her father and raised by a mother telling fortunes to the city's desperate women. One summer night, twelve-year-old Moth is pulled from her bed and sold as a servant to a finely dressed woman. It is this betrayal suffered at the hands of her own mother that changes her life forever.

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  • "Set on the streets of Lower Manhattan in 1871, The Virgin Cure is the story of Moth, a girl abandoned by her father and raised by a mother telling fortunes to the city's desperate women. One summer night, twelve-year-old Moth is pulled from her bed and sold as a servant to a finely dressed woman. It is this betrayal suffered at the hands of her own mother that changes her life forever."@en
  • "Set on the streets of Lower Manhattan in 1871, The Virgin Cure is the story of Moth, a girl abandoned by her father and raised by a mother telling fortunes to the city's desperate women. One summer night, twelve-year-old Moth is pulled from her bed and sold as a servant to a finely dressed woman. It is this betrayal suffered at the hands of her own mother that changes her life forever."
  • ""Set in Victorian New York in the year 1871, as a crowded, sweltering summer of riots and poverty comes to a close, 12-year-old Moth's journey is just beginning. Sold away by her mother, Moth becomes a pickpocket on the streets of the Lower East Side and becomes involved in a world of danger and violence. THE VIRGIN CURE is a tale of secrets and truths, of dark myths and magic of the heart - of one woman's fight to be heard, and one girl's desire to be loved."--Publisher."@en
  • "A novel set in the tenements of lower Manhattan in 1871. Born into the tenements, Moth's father smiled, tipped his hat and walked away from her forever. The summer she turned twelve, her mother sold her as a servant to a wealthy woman, with no intention of ever seeing her again. These betrayals lead Moth to work in a brothel known simply as The Infant School. There the inhabitants are prey to the virgin cure myth - that deflowering a maid can heal the those tainted with sexually transmitted diseases. The law will not protect her, polite society ignores her, so she plans her route to independence with the help of Dr Sadie, a female physician."
  • "Es war mein Vater, der mir meinen Namen gab ... "Es war mein Vater, der mir meinen Namen gab. Mama sagte, ein Baum, so alt, dass er alle Geheimnisse von New York kannte, hätte ihn ihm zugeflüstert." 1871: Das Mädchen Moth wächst in Manhattans Lower East Side auf. Die ersten Wörter, die sie lernt, sind jene, die die handgemalten Schilder ihrer Mutter, der Wahrsagerin, zieren: "Der Ring des Salomon", "Der Gürtel der Venus", "Herz", "Schicksal", "Glück" und "Leben". Sehnsüchtig blickt sie oft in die verbotenen Gärten der grossen herrschaftlichen Gebäude, bevor sie sich abends mit der Mutter auf ihr Lager legt. Als sie zwölf wird, erhält sie als Hausmädchen Zutritt in diese Welt. Doch bald erkennt Moth, dass sie selbst ein Gut besitzt, das manch einer höher erachtet als allen Schmuck und Besitz ... Ami McKay wurde im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Indiana geboren. Sie hat Musikwissenschaft und Musikerziehung studiert und einige Zeit als Lehrerin in Chicago gelebt, bevor sie im Jahr 2000 nach Kanada zog. Ihr erster Roman 'In Mondnächten' stand wochenlang auf Platz eins der kanadischen Bestsellerlisten. Ihr neuer Roman 'Der verbotene Garten' ist inspiriert von der Lebensgeschichte ihrer Ur-Urgrossmutter Dr. Sarah Fonda Mackintosh, die im 19. Jahrhundert als Ärztin in New York praktizierte. Ami McKay lebt mit ihrem Mann und zwei Söhnen in der Fundy Bucht an der Küste von Nova Scotia."
  • "Born into the tenements, Moth's father smiled, tipped his hat and walked away from her forever. The summer she turned twelve, her mother sold her as a servant to a wealthy woman, with no intention of ever seeing her again. These betrayals lead Moth to work in a brothel known simply as The Infant School. There the inhabitants are prey to the virgin cure myth - that deflowering a maid can heal the those tainted with sexually transmitted diseases. The law will not protect her, polite society ignores her, so she plans her route to independence with the help of Dr Sadie, a female physician."
  • "From the author of the number one Canadian bestseller The Birth House comes the story of a young girl abandoned to the streets of post-Civil War New York City. "I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart." Set on the streets of Lower Manhattan in 1871, The Virgin Cure is the story of Moth, a girl abandoned by her father and raised by a mother telling fortunes to the city's desperate women. One summer night, twelve-year-old Moth is pulled from her bed and sold as a servant to a finely dressed woman. It is this betrayal suffered at the hands of her own mother that changes her life forever. Knowing that her mother is so close while she is locked away in servitude, Moth bides her time until she can escape, only to find her old home deserted and her mother gone without a trace. Moth must struggle to survive alone in the murky world of the Bowery, a wild and lawless enclave filled with thieves, beggars, sideshow freaks, and prostitutes. She eventually meets Miss Everett, the proprietress of an "Infant School," a brothel that caters to gentlemen who pay dearly for "willing and clean" companions'desirable young virgins like Moth. Moth also finds friendship with Dr. Sadie, a female physician struggling against the powerful forces of injustice, who teaches Moth to question and observe the world around her. The doctor hopes to protect Moth from falling prey to a terrible myth known as the "virgin cure"'the tragic belief that deflowering a "fresh maid" can cleanse the blood and heal men afflicted with syphilis'that has destroyed the lives of other Bowery girls. Ignored by society, unprotected by the law, Moth dreams of independence. But there's a high price to pay for freedom, and no one knows that better than a girl from Chrystie Street."@en
  • "In 19th century New York, a destitute women sends her 12-year-old daughter, Moth, to become a live-in servant of a wealthy woman. To escape her employer's cruelty, Moth flees to the streets and finds herself in the Bowery, a place filled with thieves, beggars and pickpockets. Her only escape from this desperate situation may be to find shelter in a nearby brothel."

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  • "Canadian fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "History"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "General"@en
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Ausgabe"

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  • "Der verbotene Garten Roman"
  • "The virgin cure : a novel"@en
  • "The virgin cure : a novel"
  • "The virgin cure"@en
  • "The virgin cure"
  • "Antes del último sueño"@es
  • "The virgin cure a novel"@en
  • "Der verbotene Garten : Roman"
  • "The Virgin Cure"
  • "The virgin Cure"@en
  • "La casa delle vergini"
  • "La casa delle vergini"@it

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