The Cape Doctor
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Call Number: Fiction / Levy, E. J., Adult Book / Fiction / Historical / Levy, E. J.
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A novel inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry follows a penniless Irish girl who adopts the identity of a boy in order to enter medical school, and embracing the freedom of living life as a man, becomes one of the most well-respected physiciansin nineteenth-century Cape Town.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Year Published: 2021
Description: 335 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780316536585
SUBJECTS
Transgender men -- Fiction.
Physicians -- Fiction.
Cape Town (South Africa) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.