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02150aam a22002895 4500 001 9BD93CE4F83C11EC97B2B25526ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220630011908 008 201014s2020 xx 000 1 eng d 020 $a 0525432736 020 $a 9780525432739 040 $d SILO 082 $a 813 100 1 $a Palmer, Dexter. 245 10 $a Mary Toft : $b or, the Rabbit Queen 264 1 $a New York : $b Random House Inc $c 2020 300 $a 319 pages ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a In 1726, in the town of Godalming, England, a woman confounded the nation?s medical community by giving birth to seventeen rabbits. This astonishing true story is the basis for Dexter Palmer?s stunning, powerfully evocative new novel. Surgeon?s apprentice Zachary Walsh knows that his master, John Howard, prides himself on his rationality. But John cannot explain how or why Mary Toft, the wife of a local journeyman, has managed to give birth to a dead rabbit. When this singular event be?comes a regular occurrence, John and Zach?ary realize that nothing in their experience as rural physicians has prepared them to deal with a situation like this?strange, troubling, and possibly miraculous. John contacts sev?eral of London?s finest surgeons, three of whom soon arrive in Godalming to observe, argue, and perhaps use the case to cultivate their own fame. When King George I learns of Mary?s plight, she and her doctors are summoned to London, where Zachary experiences a world far removed from his small-town ex?istence and is exposed to some of the dark?est corners of the human soul. All the while Mary lies in bed, as doubts begin to blossom among her caretakers and a growing group of onlookers waits with impatience for an?other birth, another miracle.-- $c Amazon. 600 10 $a Toft, Mary, $d 1703-1763 $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Hoaxes $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Surgeons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Historical fiction. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History $v Ficiton. 941 $a 1 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630013124.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9BD93CE4F83C11EC97B2B25526ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search