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The Dollmaker

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Publisher's Synopsis

'A terrifying lesson in US history - and a haunting tragedy' Guardian

Gertie is the young mother of five children - uneducated, determined, strong. Her only ambition is to own her own small farm in the Kentucky hills where she lives, to become self-sufficient and free.

Whenever the struggle to live off the land eases, her inarticulate imagination takes its freedom and flies. Because Gertie is also an artist, a sculptor of wood and creator of beautiful handmade dolls.

When the family is forced to move to industrial Detroit, with its pre-fab houses, appliances bought on credit and neighbours on every side, life turns into an incomprehensible, lonely nightmare. Gertie realises she must adapt to a life where land, family and creativity are replaced by just one thing: the constant need for money.

'A masterwork… A superb book of unforgettable strength and glowing richness' New York Times

WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOYCE CAROL OATES

About the Publisher

Vintage Classics

Vintage Classics has existed since the inception of Vintage and is widely seen as the top twentieth-century classics list in the UK, publishing Graham Greene, Harper Lee, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf, among others. August 2007 saw the relaunch of the list and Vintage Classics now also publishes the greatest writers from previous centuries, such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll and Henry James.

Book information

ISBN: 9781784871871
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.52
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 618
Weight: 490g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 39mm