The Last Days of Dogtown A Nov

Diamant, Anita

ISBN 10: 0743225740 / ISBN 13: 9780743225748

Editore: Scribner, 2006

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Titolo: The Last Days of Dogtown A Nov

Casa editrice: Scribner

Data di pubblicazione: 2006

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: Good

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Riassunto:

Endeavoring to build a life for herself in a dying early nineteenth-century New England town, Judy Rhines struggles with feelings of profound loneliness and impacts the lives of Black Ruth, a freed slave who dresses as a man and works as a stone mason; Mrs. Stanley, an imperious madam; and Oliver, who overcomes a painful childhood. By the author of The Red Tent. Reprint. 200,000 first printing.

Recensione:

"The book has a compelling, page-turning pull...with spare yet vividly descriptive prose."

-- The Boston Globe

"[Diamant's] theme -- that life teems even as it dwindles -- has all the more power for its subtle, unsentimental articulation."

-- The Washington Post

"[A] superb historical novel."

-- Baltimore Sun

"The book is haunting.... [It] will linger with you for days."

-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A quiet tribute to love's power."

-- The Miami Herald

"An excellent novel."

-- The New York Times Book Review