| Title | : | What Girls Are Good For: A Novel of Nellie Bly (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | David Blixt |
| Release | : | 2024-07-02 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Kids & Young Adults |
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| 1 | What Girls Are Good For: A Novel of Nell | David Blixt |
| From international best-selling author David Blixt: Nellie Bly has the story of a lifetime. But will she survive to tell it? Enraged by a sexist article in the Pittsburgh Dispatch, Elizabeth Cochrane pens a furious letter to the editor that results in a job offer! Saddled with the name Nellie Bly, she struggles against the male-dominated newspaper industry to report what no one else will—stories of women. Chased out of Mexico for revealing government corruption, her romantic advances rejected by a married colleague, Bly can break into New York’s Newspaper Row if she can nab a major scoop—life inside a madhouse! Feigning madness, she is committed to the Insane Asylum on Blackwell’s Island, where matters are far worse than she dreamed. Stripped, drugged, beaten, she must endure a week of terror, reliving the darkest days of her childhood. She must escape to tell the world her story. But at the end of a week, no rescue comes, and she fears she may be trapped forever.... Ripped from the true events of Nellie Bly’s life and reporting comes a novel of rage, determination, and triumph, all in the frame of a tiny Pennsylvania spitfire who refused to let the world change her, and changed the world instead. |
