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Title: Dollmaker, The
Author: ARNOW HARRIETTE SIMPSON
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/05/2017
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
“A REDISCOVERED AMERICAN CLASSIC – A MOVING, ENDURING TRAGEDY Gertie is the young mother of five children – uneducated, determined, strong. Her only ambition is to own her own small farm in the Kentucky hills where she lives, to become self-sufficient and free. Whenever the struggle to live off the land eases, her inarticulate imagination takes its freedom and flies. Because Gertie is also an artist, a sculptor of wood and creator of beautiful handmade dolls. When the family is forced to move to industrial Detroit, with its pre-fab houses, appliances bought on credit and neighbours pressed in on every side, life turns into an incomprehensible, lonely nightmare. Gertie realises she must adapt to a life where land, family and creativity are replaced by just one thing- the constant need for money. ‘A masterworka A superb book of unforgettable strength and glowing richness’ New York Times “
ISBN: 9781784871871
Pages: 624