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ISBN: 0743225740

EAN: 9780743225748

Book Title: Last Days of Dogtown : a Novel

Item Length: 8in

Publisher: Scribner

Publication Year: 2006

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Item Height: 0.6in

Author: Anita Diamant

Genre: Fiction

Topic: Family Life, Literary, Historical

Item Width: 5.2in

Item Weight: 10.2 Oz

Number of Pages: 288 Pages

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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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Last Days of Dogtown : a Novel

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Anita Diamant

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Trade Paperback

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English

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Family Life, Literary, Historical

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2006

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Fiction

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288 Pages

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0.6in

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5.2in

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10.2 Oz

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"[A] historically detailed story of class struggle, disappointment and long suffering. The characters are transformed into beloved (and sometimes hated), familiar friends." -- The Denver Post, "A group of savvy women in early-1800s Massachusetts refuse to live by society's rules. Their dramas are soap opera juicy--but much better written."--Glamour, "Diamant's tart observations - about human frailty and a landscape where "rocks are by far the most reliable crop" - are a pleasure to read."--Seattle Times, "Diamant's tart observations - about human frailty and a landscape where "rocks are by far the most reliable crop" - are a pleasure to read." -- Seattle Times, "Anita Diamant'brings an obscure piece of American history to life with great clarity in The Last Days of Dogtown. The story is one of delicate hope and turns out to be a quiet tribute to love's power. Diamant captures with imagination and credibility the people of a unique place and time. In casting her own spell over the Dogtowners, Diamant offers her readers the opportunity to appreciate the humanity that transcends both."--Miami Herald, "Anita DiamantÅ brings an obscure piece of American history to life with great clarity in The Last Days of Dogtown. The story is one of delicate hope and turns out to be a quiet tribute to love's power. Diamant captures with imagination and credibility the people of a unique place and time. In casting her own spell over the Dogtowners, Diamant offers her readers the opportunity to appreciate the humanity that transcends both." -- Miami Herald, "The book has a compelling, page-turning pull...with spare yet vividly descriptive prose."--The Boston Globe, "[A] superb historical novel. With its cast of thoroughly engaging characters, Diamant's gripping tale is so bittersweet and haunting as to make one weep." -- The Baltimore Sun, "[Diamant's] theme -- that life teems even as it dwindles -- has all the more power for its subtle, unsentimental articulation." -- "The Washington Post", ³Anita Diamant gives us a character who doesn't get from life exactly what she wants but who creates her own happiness, nonetheless. Judy Rhines lives life fully by embracing every moment and appreciating the uniqueness of others and her own integrity. Both Judy and the haunted New England landscape evoke something of the world of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and his Hester Prynne, who also defies convention by following her own passion. The Last Days of Dogtown transports the reader to a fascinating time and place where even the dogs are compelling characters." -- Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and Four Spirits, "Diamant's fans won't be surprised to see that she continues to excel at creating memorable characters? But the character that's the most moving is the dying town itself."--Boston Magazine, "A deeply satisfying novel, populated by people we care about, delineated in spare, elegant prose...Moving, absorbing and engaging." -- Kirkus Reviews, "[Diamant's] theme -- that life teems even as it dwindles -- has all the more power for its subtle, unsentimental articulation." --The Washington Post, "The book has a compelling, page-turning pull...with spare yet vividly descriptive prose." --The Boston Globe, "[W]hat [Diamant] has created'is the overlay of a modern sensibility on an imagined past. Diamant's descriptive passages are as eloquent as a Congregationalist'and her theme -- that life teems even as it dwindles -- has all the more power for its subtle, unsentimental articulation."--Washington Post, "[Diamant's] theme -- that life teems even as it dwindles -- has all the more power for its subtle, unsentimental articulation." -- The Washington Post, Anita Diamant gives us a character who doesn't get from life exactly what she wants but who creates her own happiness, nonetheless. Judy Rhines lives life fully by embracing every moment and appreciating the uniqueness of others and her own integrity. Both Judy and the haunted New England landscape evoke something of the world of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and his Hester Prynne, who also defies convention by following her own passion. The Last Days of Dogtown transports the reader to a fascinating time and place where even the dogs are compelling characters." -- Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and Four Spirits, "The book has a compelling, page-turning pull...with spare yet vividly descriptive prose." -- "The Boston Globe", "The book is haunting, partly because of Diamant's lyrical language and partly because of the townspeople that she creates. The Last Days of Dogtown is well worth making the trip from town on up to the rocky hillside where Diamant brings her characters to life. Their voices -- and the eyes of the dogs, as well -- will linger with you for days." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "YDiamant's? theme -- that life teems even as it dwindles -- has all the more power for its subtle, unsentimental articulation." -- "The Washington Post", "Diamant's fans won't be surprised to see that she continues to excel at creating memorable characters' But the character that's the most moving is the dying town itself." -- Boston Magazine, "[W]hat [Diamant] has created'is the overlay of a modern sensibility on an imagined past. Diamant's descriptive passages are as eloquent as a Congregationalist'and her theme -- that life teems even as it dwindles -- has all the more power for its subtle, unsentimental articulation." -- Washington Post, "The book is haunting, partly because of Diamant's lyrical language and partly because of the townspeople that she creates.The Last Days of Dogtownis well worth making the trip from town on up to the rocky hillside where Diamant brings her characters to life. Their voices -- and the eyes of the dogs, as well -- will linger with you for days."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "[A] historically detailed story of class struggle, disappointment and long suffering. The characters are transformed into beloved (and sometimes hated), familiar friends."--The Denver Post, "The book has a compelling, page-turning pull...with spare yet vividly descriptive prose." -- The Boston Globe, "A group of savvy women in early-1800s Massachusetts refuse to live by society's rules. Their dramas are soap opera juicy--but much better written." -- Glamour, "[A] superb historical novel. With its cast of thoroughly engaging characters, Diamant's gripping tale is so bittersweet and haunting as to make one weep."--The Baltimore Sun, "A deeply satisfying novel, populated by people we care about, delineated in spare, elegant prose...Moving, absorbing and engaging."--Kirkus Reviews, "Diamant's fans won't be surprised to see that she continues to excel at creating memorable charactersÅ But the character that's the most moving is the dying town itself." -- Boston Magazine, "[Diamant's] theme -- that life teems even as it dwindles -- has all the more power for its subtle, unsentimental articulation."--The Washington Post, "[W]hat [Diamant] has createdÅ is the overlay of a modern sensibility on an imagined past. Diamant's descriptive passages are as eloquent as a CongregationalistÅ and her theme -- that life teems even as it dwindles -- has all the more power for its subtle, unsentimental articulation." -- Washington Post, "Anita Diamant'brings an obscure piece of American history to life with great clarity in The Last Days of Dogtown. The story is one of delicate hope and turns out to be a quiet tribute to love's power. Diamant captures with imagination and credibility the people of a unique place and time. In casting her own spell over the Dogtowners, Diamant offers her readers the opportunity to appreciate the humanity that transcends both." -- Miami Herald, 'Anita Diamant gives us a character who doesn't get from life exactly what she wants but who creates her own happiness, nonetheless. Judy Rhines lives life fully by embracing every moment and appreciating the uniqueness of others and her own integrity. Both Judy and the haunted New England landscape evoke something of the world of Hawthorne'sThe Scarlet Letterand his Hester Prynne, who also defies convention by following her own passion.The Last Days of Dogtowntransports the reader to a fascinating time and place where even the dogs are compelling characters."-- Sena Jeter Naslund, author ofAhab's WifeandFour Spirits

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by theestatepreserve
Dec 16, 2008
An Exquisite Historical Novel Worth Reading
Anita Diamant's The Last Days of Dogtown is a radical departure from the biblical setting of her best-selling novel, The Red Tent. Her backdrop for this melancholy tale is the windswept shores of Cape Ann, Massachusetts in the early days of the nineteenth century. The declining hamlet, nicknamed Dogtown by detractors, is home to a pack of semi-feral dogs and an eclectic group of residents too stubborn, too poverty stricken, too worn down, or too old to relocate to nearby Gloucester. A group of widows, witches, spinsters, whores, abused and neglected children, freed slaves, and one particularly odious villain populate the ramshackle hovels that dot the ruggedly stark landscape. At the center of a series of heart-wrenching sagas is Judy Rhines, a kindhearted maiden who harbors a secret ... Anita Diamant's The Last Days of Dogtown is a radical departure from the biblical setting of her best-selling novel, The Red Tent. Her backdrop for this melancholy tale is the windswept shores of Cape Ann, Massachusetts in the early days of the nineteenth century. The declining hamlet, nicknamed Dogtown by detractors, is home to a pack of semi-feral dogs and an eclectic group of residents too stubborn, too poverty stricken, too worn down, or too old to relocate to nearby Gloucester. A group of widows, witches, spinsters, whores, abused and neglected children, freed slaves, and one particularly odious villain populate the ramshackle hovels that dot the ruggedly stark landscape. At the center of a series of heart-wrenching sagas is Judy Rhines, a kindhearted maiden who harbors a secret so scandalous that its revelation would bring her instant ruin and tear the moribund town apart. One by one, the animal and human characters die or move away, sealing the fate of the disintegtrating community. In The Red Tent Diamant uses broad, brilliant brush strokes of prose to create the portrait of her Old Testament visions of sex and violence, while The Last Days of Dogtown is as plain as a charcoal sketch. Basing this novel loosely in fact- she discovered the existence of the town by reading a pamphlet- Diamant adeptly manages to evoke the minutae of everyday living in an all but forgotten place and time in history. In The Last Days of Dogtown, Diamant creates a gripping historical novel as she delves into a lost crevice of human drama in 19th-century Massachusetts and presents it with a modern tone. The novel ends with a sigh which some readers, accustomed to having everything tied up in a nice bow by television and movies, will find unsatisfying. She takes us alongside the drunkards, whores, and witches, and, in the end, she evokes the tragic sadness of humanity in the grays and pale sunshine of Cape Ann. This is a book worth reading.
by john3539-1
Mar 03, 2017
Dark story
This fictitious historic novel tells the dark and dreary story of a downward spiriling town in New England. It may be based on realities that most would not find entertaining. Well written but sad & depressing.
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by mrssobblackcat_0
Oct 04, 2012
Tavern, cauldron, hanging tree, I wouldn't spy......
An interesting well written peek into a time and place and characters we never will see... I enjoyed the plot, Diamant is a dynamic writer....if you like this book try her Red Tent, it's a real page turner full of historical insight
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