Dollmaker, The by Harriette Arnow Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Dollmaker, The
Book Review: Awful!
Summary: 1 Stars
I am an avid reader but I found this book "over the top", too many characters, too slow, (stayed in one scene far too long), almost written in a 'foreign', very difficult 'language'. Unfortunately, not a good read at all.Book Review: The Dollmaker was Excellent
Summary: 4 Stars
I think this book was excellent. I have seen other comments about how the writer should have turned the characters lives around. But this book was more nonfiction than fiction if you think about it.
I would recommend this book to anyone who loves to read novels with some truth in the words written.
Book Review: Very powerful book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my third reading of The Dollmaker over a 15 year span of time. Parts of this novel always stay with me, even as I forget the particulars: the tracheotomy on her youngest child when it was do it or die; the yearning for and eventual purchase of land of her own; the tragedies that await her family in Detroit. It is even more poignant now - I grew up in Appalachia, and now live in the metro Detroit suburbs, where "Ypsituckian" is a derogatory word. This book chronicles a people and a time gone by, as the mountain region gets more and more homogenized. It makes me fiercely proud of home.