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The tiny rural backwater of Dogtown nestled on Cape Ann and hugging the Massachusetts coast line, is a place that is reputedly dying, but its few remaining inhabitants show an enduring spirit that keeps a small flame of life alight. For here, in this forgotten hamlet, lives a cast of dignified, yet utterly eccentric characters. Black Ruth is one of only two Africans still living in the area; she dresses as a man, speaks to no-one, and continues her craft as the local stonemason, casting love and care over the stones she hews. Mrs Stanley is blousey, blonde and the local madam; a woman of total self-absorption, who cares nothing for her young grandson, coming of age amid the sights and sounds of a wretched rural brothel. Oliver Younger, a man with ambition, overcomes a cruel and miserable childhood to marry the woman of his dreams and create a family infused with love. At the centre of it all is Judy Rhines, a fiercely independent woman, generous and wise, but also heartbroken and lonely, whose taboo love for Cornelius, a former slave, burns at the core of her soul. Loosely based on the true story of a community, The Last Days of Dogtown is a rich, compassionate and compelling novel which illuminates a small, but vivid, chapter of nineteenth century America.
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From the bestselling author of the RED TENT comes a wonderfully rich historical novel
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Anita Diamant's debut novel The Red Tent was an international bestseller and won the Booksense Book of the Year Award. Her second novel Good Harbor was a favourite with reading groups. Anita is also an award-winning journalist and the author of six books about contemporary Jewish life. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and daughter.
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- Data di pubblicazione2006
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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. 263 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Macmillan, Australia, 2006. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: THE LAST DAYS OF DOGTOWN is a novel set on Cape Ann, Massachusetts in the early 1800s. But this is not so much a historical novel as a novel of the past, of poor people, widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and 'witches': the kind of people who are generally forgotten by history. Based loosely on published accounts of an abandoned rural backwater near the Massachusetts coastline, THE LAST DAYS OF DOGTOWN reimagines and reinvents the stories of a small group of eccentrics and misfits - reputedly the last residents of the ghost town. THE LAST DAYS OF DOGTOWN features a cast of unforgettable characters including Black Ruth, an African woman who dresses as a man and works as a stone mason; Mrs. Stanley, an imperious madam, whose grandson, Sammy, comes of age amid the sights and sounds of a wretched rural brothel; Oliver Younger, who overcomes the most miserable childhood and becomes a loving father. At the center of it all is Judy Rhines, a fiercely independent soul, generous and wise but also heart-broken and lonely, who nevertheless builds a life for herself and a community of friends, in the most unlikely of settings. As in her first novel, The Red Tent, author Anita Diamant takes a chapter of our shared past and brings it to vivid life, in this case, changing forever the way we think about (among other things) what it was like to have a toothache in 1815 and the experience of African slaves in New England. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 1405049677. ISBN/EAN: 9781405049672. Inventory No: 16080547. Codice articolo 16080547
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