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The Last Days of Dogtown : A Novel
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The Last Days of Dogtown : A Novel Paperback - 2006

by Diamant, Anita

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Gloriously reviewed nation-wide, named one of the best books of 2005 by "The Boston Globe," and now available in paperback, this is Diamant's heralded return to literary historical fiction.

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  • Title The Last Days of Dogtown : A Novel
  • Author Diamant, Anita
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1ST
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner, New York
  • Date 2006-07-18
  • Features Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP75402453
  • ISBN 9780743225748 / 0743225740
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.65 in (20.57 x 13.46 x 1.65 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Dogtown Commons (Gloucester, Mass.)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

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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About the author

Anita Diamant is the bestselling author of the novels The Boston Girl, The Red Tent, Good Harbor, The Last Days of Dogtown, and Day After Night, and the collection of essays, Pitching My Tent. An award-winning journalist whose work appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine and Parenting, and many others, she is the author of six nonfiction guides to contemporary Jewish life. She lives in Massachusetts. Visit her website at AnitaDiamant.com.

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