The hatbox baby

Carrie Brown

first published 2000 Compass Press, 2000 410 pages

"On a sweltering summer morning in 1933, a baby is delivered in a hatbox to the Century of Progress Exposition - the World's Fair - in Chicago.". "This very tiny baby, born three months early, is brought by his desperate young father to the fair's famous baby doctor, Leo Hoffman, to be saved. Dr. Hoffman - part showman, part scientist - finances his neonatal research by exhibiting a collection of live premature babi...

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The hatbox baby edition · 2002 · Berkley Books · 333 pages
The hatbox baby edition · 2000 · Compass Press · 410 pages
The hatbox baby edition · 2000 · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 333 pages

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