Fleshmarket
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780385731546
Category
Horror (Fiction)
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Tags
horror, young adult fiction, abandonment, Anger in boys, Boys with depression, Classism, Father-separated children, Fourteen-year-old boys, Grief in children, Human body parts industry and trade, Juvenile delinquency, Robert Knox, loss, Medical ethics, Medical research, Medicine, mothers, Murderers, Physicians, poverty, revenge, Serial murders, Siblings, survival
Abstract
In nineteenth-century Scotland, following the death of his mother during surgery, Robbie decides to take revenge on the surgeon who performed the operation, Dr. Robert Knox, and in the process, makes a gruesome discovery about the lengths the medical profession will go to advance its knowledge of anatomy.
Number of Copies
1
