Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

The radium girls : [the dark story of America's shining women] / Kate Moore.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher: [Minneapolis, Minnesota] : HighBridge Audio, [2017]Copyright date: �2017Description: 13 audio discs (16 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • spoken word
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
ISBN:
  • 9781681684215
  • 1681684217
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.17/990820973 23
LOC classification:
  • HD6067.2.U6 M66 2017ab
Read by Angela Brazil.Summary: 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book Sonoma Academy Library 363.17 MOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 107798
Total holds: 0

Subtitle from container.

Unabridged.

Compact discs.

In container (16 x 18 cm.)

Read by Angela Brazil.

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.