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Rent The Dress Lodger (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-MP3, Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Jan 2001
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $14.00
Pages: 291
Synopsis
Set in the 19th century, in an English city suffering from a cholera epidemic, this novel is about a young prostitute named Gustine who sells herself to pay for the care of her horribly deformed baby. She becomes involved with a mad doctor who needs corpses for his research--a venture that ends in violence. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
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