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- Title
- My Notorious Life: A Novel
- Author
- Manning, Kate
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1451698062
- ISBN 13
- 9781451698060
A brilliant rendering of a scandalous historical figure, Kate Mannings My Notorious Life is an ambitious, thrilling novel introducing Axie Muldoon, a fiery heroine for the ages. Axies story begins on the streets of 1860s New York. The impoverished child of Irish immigrants, she grows up to become one of the wealthiest and most controversial women of her day.
In vivid prose, Axie recounts how she is forcibly separated from her mother and siblings, apprenticed to a doctor, and how she and her husband parlay the sale of a few bottles of Lunar Tablets for Female Complaint into a thriving midwifery business. Flouting convention and defying the law in the name of womens reproductive rights, Axie rises from grim tenement rooms to the splendor of a mansion on Fifth Avenue, amassing wealth while learning over and over never to trust a man who says trust me.
When her services attract outraged headlines, Axie finds herself on a collision course with a crusading officialAnthony Comstock, founder of the Society for the Suppression of Vice. It will take all of Axies cunning and power to outwit him in the fight to preserve her freedom and everything she holds dear.
Inspired by the true history of an infamous female physician who was once called the Wickedest Woman in New York, My Notorious Life is a mystery, a family saga, a love story, and an exquisitely detailed portrait of nineteenth-century America. Axie Muldoons inimitable voice brings the past alive, and her story haunts and enlightens the present.
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Review
"Manning has created an unforgettable character driven by determination and conscience."--Donna Marchetti "Cleveland Plain Dealer "
"Not just a splendidly page-turning story of an angry orphan clawing her way up in the world, but a gripping docu-drama about women's business (in several senses) in nineteenth-century America. My Notorious Life gives midwifery its full dues: the glories and the miseries, the feminism and the money, the literally bloody ethical dilemmas. Unflinchingly memorable."--Emma Donoghue, author of Room
Kate Manning has taken a little known nugget of history and spun it into a remarkable novel that is mesmerizing and resonant. Her New York City of the late nineteenth century is passionately evoked, and Axie Muldoon is as fierce and alive a character as I have read in recent fiction. In its exploration of a subject no less pressing now than it was over a hundred years ago, My Notorious Life is an essential novel for our time."--Marisa Silver, author of Mary Coin
"My Notorious Life is wonderful fun. The wit and verve of its unsinkable heroine make this novel a delight to read, even in its most harrowing passages. Beyond that, it's a book that matters--now more than ever. Faithfully true to the time of its setting, it is also extremely relevant to ours."--Madison Smartt Bell, author of The Color of Night
"My Notorious Life is a must read for anyone who likes their novels smart, entertaining and provocative. Axie Muldoon's lively, remarkable story begins with an unexpected death and an identity switch and never lets up until the end. Masterful."--Whitney Otto, author of Eight Girls Taking Pictures
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