The Dollmaker
Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevel's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills was devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted form their backwoods home, she and her family were thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit. And in a pitiless world of unendurable poverty, Gertie...
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Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevel's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills was devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted form their backwoods home, she and her family were thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit. And in a pitiless world of unendurable poverty, Gertie would battle fiercely and relentlessly to protect those things she held most precious--her children, her heritage...and her triumphant ability to create beauty in the suffocating shadow of ugliness and despair.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780380009473 (0380009471)
ASIN: 380009471
Publish date: March 1st 1999
Publisher: Avon
Pages no: 608
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Family,
Southern
Not being familiar with this classic book, I was amused to find, after reading the first harrowing section, that I'd seen the film version with Jane Fonda many years ago. Our lead character, Gertie, has dreams which are shattered by the events of the Second World War. She moves with all her children...
It's been years since I read this book but I can say this about it without a doubt...It's a masterpiece! I cannot encourage you enough to read this book.
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