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de Anita Diamant (Author) "Judy Rhines decided to take the footpath through the pasture ..." En savoir plus
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Fans of Diamant's The Red Tent who were disappointed by her sophomore effort (Good Harbor) will be happy to find her back on historical turf in her latest, set in early 1800s Massachusetts. Inspired by the settlement of Dogtown, Diamant reimagines the community of castoffs—widows, prostitutes, orphans, African-Americans and ne'er-do-wells—all eking out a harsh living in the barren terrain of Cape Ann. Black Ruth, the African woman who dresses like a man and works as a stonemason; Mrs. Stanley, who runs the local brothel, and Judy Rhines, an unmarried white woman whose lover Cornelius is a freed slave, are among Dogtown's inhabitants who are considered suspect—even witches—by outsiders. Shifting perspectives among the various residents (including the settlement's dogs, who provide comfort to the lonely), Diamant brings the period alive with domestic details and movingly evokes the surprising bonds the outcasts form in their dying days. This chronicle of a dwindling community strikes a consistently melancholy tone—readers in search of happy endings won't find any here—but Diamant renders these forgotten lives with imagination and sensitivity.
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Anita Diamant's stark sketch of a group of society's throwaways focuses on the once promising community of Dogtown, near Gloucester, Mass. By 1814, the area is reduced to broken-down hovels populated by wild dogs, whores, emancipated slaves, destitute widows and orphans, who survive by wile, duplicity, and sheer force of will. Kate Nelligan's performance highlights these examples of human resilience, from Black Ruth, an African woman who dresses like a man; to Tammy, a vicious old woman who torments her orphaned nephew; to Judy, whose taboo love affair with Cornelius, a freed slave, is fraught with danger. With unsentimental eloquence, Nelligan embodies the free-thinking spirit of these New Englanders and handles individual joys and tragedies with compassion. A fascinating book and an extraordinary performance. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 So Real it Will Make You Cry, Janv. 7 2008
Par Katie Osborne (Portland, Oregon and the sunny Caribbean) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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It's rumored and many of the people in Gloucester, Massachusetts believe the folks over in Dogtown, a town that has been named for the pack of almost wild dogs who run free in the town that is hour's walk away, are witches, but they're not. They are simply outcasts, black folks, prostitutes, widows, drunks and the like. Folks they'd look down on, folks just trying to get by, dealing with the daily evils one might find if you are not gentry in 1814.

Dogtown is a small farming village by Cape Ann that failed to make it and so winds up being a town for those on the bottom rungs of society who mired in poverty or just plain lazy make do by selling berries or a brew the make from twigs and roots. However, their betters do not admire their endeavors, instead they make fun of them, call them trasheaters. In Dogtown those who can, get out.

We meet some of dogtown's residents at a funeral, like Ruth a black stonemason who happens to dress like a man (remember this is the early 1800s); a madam that is raising her grandson in her brothel; a couple of lesbian prostitutes among others; but the mourner who really grabs the reader's attention is Judy Rhines, a poor woman who had been abandoned by her father when she was eight years old. Judy is a sad and lonely woman who once had an affair with a freed slave, but she was forced to end the affair and now her heart only beats half the time. Her only companion now is one of the town dogs.

THE LAST DAYS OF DOGTOWN is a character study of the people mentioned above and others that will both take you back to a place in time where life was hard, sometimes cruel, often unfair and it make you glad you live when and where you do. Anita Diamant's people are sometimes too real, so real you want to cry, so real you will be thinking about them long after you finish this gorgeous story. Five stars from me.

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