02005nam a2200361u 4500 900623611 OCoLC 20190501234140.0 ta 150924s2015 nyu 000 1 eng 2015007901 9780425271810 0425271811 (OCoLC)900623611 DLC eng rda DLC YDXCP BDX BTCTA OCLCO OCLCF CDX UOK pcc n-us-ny PS3554.O46923 G55 2015 813/.54 23 Donati, Sara, 1956- author. The gilded hour Sara Donati. New York : Berkley Books, 2015. 741 pages ; 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier The year is 1883, and in New York City, it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie--both graduates of the Woman's Medical School--treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they've strived for in jeopardy. Anna's work has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had. Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make an unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life. For Sophie, an obstetrician and the orphaned daughter of free people of color, helping a desperate young mother forces her to grapple with the oath she took as a doctor--and thrusts her and Anna into the orbit of Anthony Comstock, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent and of anyone who dares to defy him. Women physicians Fiction. New York (State) History 19th century Fiction. Historical fiction. gsafd 2 24245 24245 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2017-01-19 2 1 DONA 35479 2023-03-22 2023-03-14 26.95 2017-01-19 BOOK