Author

Publication

2008-04-29 - Roaring Brook Press

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101596433558
  • ISBN-139781596433557
  • Goodreads2097938
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007016591
  • OCLC Control Number137222734
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781596433557
  • Open LibraryOL12442050M

Classifications

  • LCCPZ7.H7683 New 2008
  • LCCPZ7.H7683New 2008

Description

Anne can't move a muscle, can't open her eyes, can't scream. She lies immobile in the darkness, unsure if she'd dead, terrified she's buried alive, haunted by her final memory—of being hanged. A maidservant falsely accused of infanticide in 1650 England and sent to the scaffold, Anne Green is trapped with her racing thoughts, her burning need to revisit the events—and the man—that led her to the gallows. Meanwhile, a shy 18-year-old medical student attends his first dissection and notices something strange as the doctors prepare their tools . . . Did her eyelids just flutter? Could this corpse be alive? Beautifully written, impossible to put down, and meticulously researched, *Newes from the Dead* is based on the true story of the real Anne Green, a servant who survived a hanging to awaken on the dissection table. *Newes from the Dead* concludes with scans of the original 1651 document that recounts this chilling medical phenomenon.

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