London: Pan Books. Very Good. 2006. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Light reading and cover corner creases, minor shelf wear, ink name to front endpaper, paper lightly edge toned. ; First UK paperback edition, first printing with full number line. Nice tight copy. Cover design uncredited with images courtesy of Corbis and lettering by Stephen Raw. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 384 pages; The tiny rural backwater of Dogtown nestled on Cape Ann. It's few remaining inhabitants show an enduring spirit that keeps life and love alive. For here, in this forgotten hamlet in the early nineteenth century, lives a cast of dignified, yet utterly eccentric characters. Black Ruth, one of only two Africans still living in the area; she dresses as a man, speaks to no-one, and continues her craft as the local stonemason. Mrs Stanley is blousey, blonde and the local madam; totally self-absorbed, she cares nothing for her young grandson, coming of age amid the sights and sounds of a rural brothel. Oliver Younger overcomes a cruel and miserable childhood to find happiness in marriage and fatherhood. At the heart of it all is Judy Rhines, a fiercely independent woman, generous and wise, but also heartbroken and lonely, whose taboo love for Cornelius, a former slave, burns at the centre of her soul. .

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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: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 35696
Title: The Last Days Of Dogtown
Author: Diamant, Anita
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Edition: Reprint; First Printing
ISBN 10: 0330491679
ISBN 13: 9780330491679
Publisher: Pan Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2006
Bookseller catalogs: Historical Fiction;

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