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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780060529345
ISBN: 0060529342
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 624
Publication Date: 2003-05-01
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: 2003-04-29
Studio: Harper Perennial

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Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevels's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills is devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted from her backwoods home, she and her family are thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit. And in a pitiless world of unendurable poverty, Gertie will battle fiercely and relentlessly to protect those things she holds most dear -- her children, her heritage . . . and her triumphant ability to create beauty in the suffocating shadow of ugliness and despair.

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Summary: Awful!
Comment: 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.

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Summary: The Dollmaker was Excellent
Comment: 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.

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Summary: symbolism
Comment: This has been my favorite movie of all time since it first aired on television. My children found a copy of the movie for me long ago and I share it whenever I can because of the message of hope. Of all the reviews I've read on this movie, not one speaks of the message of God's provision when we've taken a wrong turn. She's continually looking at the 'face' of Jesus and can't quite see what that might look like. It is the theme throughout and yet the reviews I read are focused on what I believe are extra great messages...but not the underlying message. At the lowest point of her life the very cherry wood that she's been carving throughout the story takes on a new meaning as 'Christ was broken' for her. It's there that she finally gets the message of his face. He saved her from the life she was living and ultimately brought her home.

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Summary: Very powerful book
Comment: 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.

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Summary: Required Reading
Comment: I read Dollmaker over twenty years ago and have never forgotten its message. I feel all women should be required to read this important story. It shows that the strength, courage and faith that women use daily in everyday life is taken for granted by some but cherished and passed on by others. This book makes you grow in ways that are not easy to describe.

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