Dollmaker

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ISBN-10:

0025033603

ISBN-13:

9780025033603

Author(s): Arnow, Harriette
Released: Apr 01, 1954
Publisher: Scribner
Format: Board book, 549 pages
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Description:

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 masterworkâ ¦ A superb book of unforgettable strength and glowing richness' New York Times

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