The radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women
Record details
- ISBN: 9781665146807
- ISBN: 1492650951
- ISBN: 9781492650959
- ISBN: 1681684217
- ISBN: 9781681684215
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Physical Description:
13 audio discs (16 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
sound disc - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [Minneapolis, Minnesota] : HighBridge Audio, [2017]
- Copyright: ℗2017
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from web page. Compact discs. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Pt. 1. Knowledge -- Pt. 2. Power -- Pt. 3. Justice -- Epilogue -- Postscript. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Angela Brazil. |
Summary, etc.: | In 1917, as a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous. The girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. As the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and crippling illnesses. The very thing that had made them feel alive, their work, was in fact slowly killing them: they had been poisoned by the radium paint. Yet their employers denied all responsibility. And so, in the face of unimaginable suffering, in the face of death, these courageous women refused to accept their fate quietly, and instead became determined to fight for justice. |
Awards Note: | 2019 Lincoln Award Nominee |
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- 6 of 6 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Silas Bronson Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | A-BKCD 363.1799 MOO (Text) | 34005126107613 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |