The Last Days of Dogtown: A Novel
by Diamant, Anita
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0743225732
- ISBN 13
- 9780743225731
- Seller
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Sewell, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. The image provided is the actual book I'm offering for sale. No markings or damage to any pages. No sunning. No clips. Structure of the book (covers, binding, spine, hinges) is tight and free of damage. Page block is nice and square. Cut pages. Additional photos will be provided upon request in order to ensure the quality and integrity of your book purchase.
Synopsis
The new novel from Anita Diamant, author of the international bestseller, The Red Tent, follows the lives and loves of an eccentric 19th century farming community in Massachusetts, and demonstrates both her amazing range as a novelist and her capacity to understand and honour people's lives.An excellent novel. A lovely and moving portrait of society's outcast living in an unforgiving and barren but harshly beautiful landscape. New York Times Book ReviewIn the early nineteenth century there was once a place called Dogtown. Located on a rocky outcrop at the northernmost boundary of Massachusetts Bay, it was a miserable place really, less a village than a motley collection of people who had nowhere else to go. Yet the end of a village, even one as poor and small as Dogtown, is not an altogether trivial thing.With a sure and delicate touch, Anita Diamant shares compelling secrets and sadnesses, interweaving the lives of the mysterious black African woman Ruth, who dresses as a man; the child Sammy, who arrived in Dogtown with a note attached to his coat; the touching and tender love story of Judy Rhines and Cornelius; and presiding over all, the benign and diminutive Easter Carter, host of what passes as the local tavern.The Last Days of Dogtown vividly brings to life an unforgettable community of eccentrics and misfits - the forgotten people of the New World who live on the fringes of polite society. With great depth of feeling, Diamant shows us the essential humanity of these quiet, small lives, lived in that harsh, windswept landscape and under that bright sky. There will be much celebration when Anita Diamant's fans discover this gem on the shelves of their favourite bookstore. Armidale Express
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- Bookseller
- The Dusty Bookcase (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0002970
- Title
- The Last Days of Dogtown: A Novel
- Author
- Diamant, Anita
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 263 pgs.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0743225732
- ISBN 13
- 9780743225731
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- 19th Century; Fiction; Gloucester (Mass.); Historical; Historical fiction; Literary; Massachusetts; New England
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical; Fiction;
- Size
- Octavo
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