The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
A Matter of Life or DeathIt's 1849, and twelve-year-old, Lucas Whitaker is all alone after his whole family dies of a disease called consumption which has swept through the community. Lucas is grief-stricken and filled with guilt. He might have saved his mother, who was the last to die, if only he had listened to news of a strange cure for this deadly disease.Unable to manage the family farm by himself, Lucas finds work as an apprentice to Doc Beecher, doctor, dentist, barber and undertaker. Doc amputates a leg as easily as he pulls a tooth, yet when it comes to consumption, he remains powerless, unwilling to try the cure he calls nonsense. L…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-40014-9
- EAN: 9780374400149
- Produktnummer: 2536796
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 151 S.
- Masse: H19.4 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.0 cm 141 g
- Gewicht: 141
- Sonstiges: Ab 9 - 12 J.
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Cynthia DeFelice
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