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The Cape doctor : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

The Cape doctor : a novel / E.J. Levy.

Summary:

A novel inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry follows a penniless Irish girl who adopts the identity of a boy in order to enter medical school, and embracing the freedom of living life as a man, becomes one of the most well-respected physicians in nineteenth-century Cape Town.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316536585
  • ISBN: 031653658X
  • Physical Description: ix, 337 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Subject: Physicians > Fiction.
Gender identity > Fiction.
Passing (Identity) > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Irish > South Africa > Fiction.
Cape Town (South Africa) > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Bowen Island Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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