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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A unusual story combining circus workers and premature babies. Surprisingly heart-warming. Brown knows how to find the endearing and the good in people within life's harshness. ( ) no reviews | add a review
On a sweltering Chicago morning in 1933, a baby is delivered in a hatbox to the Century of Progress Exposition - the World's Fair. This very tiny baby, born 3 months early, is brought to the fair's famous baby doctor, Leo Hoffman, to be saved. Dr. Hoffman - part showman, part scientist - finances his neonatal research by exhibiting a collection of live premature babies. His "Infantorium" attracts huge, gawking crowds every sultry day. At the fair - a place of freaks and marvels, mysteries and miracles - the notion of what is "normal" comes into question daily. Before the summer ends, a number of remarkable persons will invest heavily in this fragile baby's life. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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