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Title: The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow ISBN: 0-380-00947-1 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A passionate denunciation of industry and war
Comment: An amazing book, especially considering it was published in 1954.
The opening scene is gripping: an uneducated rural housewife performs a tracheotomy on her dying son. She values their country life and holds to those country values even when war comes and she takes the kids and follows her husband to Detroit where he's been assigned to work in a war factory.
Wonderful characters, vividly drawn. But most of all, The Dollmaker is a passionate denunciation of industrialization and of war and all that it does to families and society.
Rating: 4
Summary: Long but good
Comment: The Dollmaker was a novel about a family and it's struggle to stay together. The main character Gertie Nevel moved her family from Kentucky to Detroit in an effort to survive. It was during War World II and Gertie's family was in dire need of money. Though Gertie is strong willed, her fight in the chaotic wartime of Detroit thrusts her into a life she is at times unable to bare. The type of life she lived before and her morals she brought up with her to Michigan is something she continued to battle with through out the book. Her love for land, crops, and the country throws her into despair. Her Detroit home smothered her with disbeliefs of never being happy in an environment such as a city life. The home itself was small and she felt like she could have been suffocated at any moment. Her perception of urban life is not a good one either. She views Kentucky as this beautiful place where life should be, and instead she's in Detroit where there is nothing but evil. Another problem Gerite faces is in her leisure time; there she is incapable to whittle the small dolls for Cassie, her youngest daughter. Now she has to make ugly, unwanted dolls to make money. Gertie is a character with a lot of inner strength, and yet her spirit was broken through out the novel. Although this book was stretched out in miniscule detail it allowed the readers to understand more clearly how life changes for the better.
Rating: 1
Summary: Brave or Coward
Comment: While I did enjoy parts of the book, I find it to be lacking overall. Gertie is a believable character but lacks in courage. She was supposedly a strong person. She did face many challanges but didn't overcome then. Instead she sidestepped her problems. Not until the last page does she actually become the character she is portrayed to be but I barely made it to the last page. The climax occurs far too early in the book so the resolution takes up far too much time. The one star was given on pity alone. Do not read this book if you have seen the movie. In fact do not read this book period.
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Title:The Dollmaker ASIN: 6301802837 Publisher: Fox Home Entertainme Pub. Date: 11 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.98 |
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Title: River of Earth by James Still ISBN: 0813113725 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: July, 1978 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Seedtime on the Cumberland by Harriette Simpson Arnow, Margaret Ripley Wolfe ISBN: 0803259263 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Flowering of the Cumberland by Harriette Simpson Arnow, Margaret Ripley Wolfe ISBN: 080325928X Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Hunter's Horn by Harriette Louisa Simpson Arnow ISBN: 0813116007 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: August, 1986 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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