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100 1 $aBrown, Carrie,$d1959-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98104196
245 14 $aThe hatbox baby /$ca novel by Carrie Brown.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aChapel Hill, N.C. :$bAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill,$c2000.
300 $a333 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"On a sweltering summer morning in 1933, a baby is delivered in a hatbox to the Century of Progress Exposition - the World's Fair - in Chicago.".
520 8 $a"This very tiny baby, born three months early, is brought by his desperate young father 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 in their incubators. His "Infantorium," with its giant test-tube fountain spouting pink-and-blue water and its pair of wading storks, attracts huge, gawking crowds every sultry day.".
520 8 $a"At the fair, a place of freaks and marvels, mysteries, miracles - and even murders - the notion of what is "normal" and what is not comes into question daily. And before the summer ends and the fair closes, a number of remarkable persons will invest heavily in this fragile baby's life: Dr. Hoffman; his registered nurses; his wet nurses; the baby's spinster aunt; Caroline Day, the beautiful fan dancer and another of the fair's biggest attractions; and a dwarflike sideshow barker named St.
520 8 $aLouis Percy, the fan dancer's cousin, manager, and bodyguard, whose stake in the hatbox baby's future becomes the most serious of all."--BOOK JACKET.
611 20 $aCentury of Progress International Exposition$d(1933-1934 :$cChicago, Ill.)$vFiction.
650 0 $aPhysician and patient$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010106255
650 0 $aPremature infants$vFiction.
651 0 $aChicago (Ill.)$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008100185
650 0 $aPediatricians$vFiction.
650 0 $aNeonatology$vFiction.
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