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| Original Title: | The Dollmaker |
| ISBN: | 0060529342 (ISBN13: 9780060529345) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Gertie Nevels, Clovis Nevels |
| Setting: | Detroit, Michigan(United States) Kentucky(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1955) |
Harriette Arnow
Paperback | Pages: 624 pages Rating: 4.16 | 3131 Users | 439 Reviews
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Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevels's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills is devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted from her backwoods home, she and her family are thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit. And in a pitiless world of unendurable poverty, Gertie will battle fiercely and relentlessly to protect those things she holds most dear -- her children, her heritage . . . and her triumphant ability to create beauty in the suffocating shadow of ugliness and despair.
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| Title | : | The Dollmaker |
| Author | : | Harriette Arnow |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 624 pages |
| Published | : | April 29th 2003 by HarperCollins (first published 1954) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics |
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Ratings: 4.16 From 3131 Users | 439 ReviewsAppraise Containing Books The Dollmaker
The Dollmaker is the story of Gertie Nevels, a Kentucky woman who is uprooted from the home that she loves and forced to live in Detroit during the Second World War. It is a tragedy that springs from the loss of agrarian life to industrial labor, the misunderstands and lack of communications between spouses, and the burying of the artistic spirit and individuality beneath the struggle to simply exist.There are dozens of ideas in this book that could be discussed and debated at length, but whatI just saw this book on GR and remembered how very much I loved it. I read it soo many years ago-but as soon as I saw Gertie's name(main character) scenes from the book immediately popped into my head. The 5*s I give this book are in a different category than the 5*s I give to many other books.I don't know if this book will stand the test of time -but I do know that when I read the book it totally knocked me out!!
The Dollmaker opens with intense action that proves to be foreshadowing . A mother is taking her young son to a doctor; they are riding on a mule, the only transportation available in this emergency. Using the mule in desperation as a road block, she stops a speeding car on a back country road. As the son is suffocating due to a congested throat, she takes out her knife and with the unwilling help of the men in the car cuts a breathing hole in his neck. The boy does survive thanks to the
This book was depressing, didactic, full of despair and in parts, disturbingly graphic (and this review is brought to you by the letter D). That said, it was an amazing book and I can't believe I made it to this advanced age without reading it. A Kentucky farmwoman and her children reluctantly follow her husband to Detroit during WWII, where he works at one of the auto factories for the war effort. No kidding, these people can outJoad the Joads any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.
One of my favorite novels.This book still haunts me. For regional writers: a fine use of dialect, without creating or living up to stereotypical renderings of characters from Appalachia.For students of American literature: a rich, meaty example of the literary movement of natural determinism, ala Ellen Glasgow.For those with Appalachian roots: It'll make you miss yer kin somethin fierce.
I believe Joyce Carol Oates recommended this book either in the forward or in a review. In any event, I never would have discovered it otherwise. The author introduces the reader to the world of rural Kentucky during a time of deep poverty and despair. It's a tough read as some awful stuff happens but, at the same time, it's a book you won't be able to put down. There was one moment when I was literally sobbing so hard that I had to stop reading. It's fiction, but the book paints a true portrait
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