by Sheri Holman
Atlantic Monthly Press | January 15, 1999 | Hardcover
Doctor and dress lodger come together in the filthy, cholera-infected East End of Sunderland. Here, during the worst epidemic since the bubonic plague, Gustine secures bodies for the doctor''s school in exchange for medical care for her ailing child. The arrangement is gruesome but profitable for both until Henry''s greed and his growing obsession with her child challenge Gustine''s loyalty to him. In order to save her child, Gustine must beg for help from her chief enemy -- a malevolent old woman known only as the Eye.
Ribald, irreverent, heartbreaking and horrifying, "The Dress Lodger" is a Dickensian tour de force.
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The Dress Lodger
Aynsley Baker
12 years ago
A work not unlike Dickens'. Very suspensful and gripping; a good period piece that manages to grasp the horror of the poor in industrialized Britain.
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