Description: Radium Halos : A Novel About the Radium Dial Painters, Paperback by Stout, Shelley, ISBN 1497321239, ISBN-13 9781497321236, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Radium Halos is historical fiction based on the true events of the Radium Girls: a group of female factory workers who, in the early 1920s, contracted radiation poisoning from painting luminous watch and clock dials with radium paint. Our narrator is Helen Waterman, a 65-year-old mental patient who worked at the factory when she was 16. She tells us her story through flashbacks, slowly revealing her past, the loved ones she’s lost, and the dangerous secrets she’s kept all these years. "While the subject matter is intense, the tone of the novel is surprisingly light. Thanks is due to Helen who adds humor through her naive and bluntly honest outlook."The Historical Novel Review"At turns humorous, feisty, and heartrendingly childlike, Helen’s narrative voice is powerfully blunt."Red Adept's Kindl Review Blog"5 Stars......this was a novel to tug at the heart."FOREWORDby Leonard GrossmanFive years before I was born, my father, Leonard J. Grossman, represented women from Ottawa, Illinois in litigation against the Radium Dial Corporation seeking not merely damages but also recognition of what had been done to them. I grew up in the shadow of the Radium Dial case, a landmark in workers’ rights in this country. I was deeply proud of my father and infuriated, as he was, by the injustice inflicted on these women. I am sure this background is one reason I became a government lawyer enforcing workers’ rights. So when I came across Radium Halos by Shelley Stout I was very fiction can speak truth in ways that the bare facts cannot. Ms. Stout has found a unique voice in which to tell the tragic story of the Radium Dial workers and at the same time to say much about life in this country. The story goes beyond the Radium Dial case and reflects much about our attitudes toward work, women, mental illness and aging. Along the way it speaks of fear and loyalty and truth GrossmanSeptember 2009
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Book Title: Radium Halos : a Novel about the Radium Dial Painters
Number of Pages: 226 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Historical
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 12.5 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Shelley Stout
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
