Harriette Arnow (1908–1986)
Forfatter af The Dollmaker
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Værker af Harriette Arnow
Nukentekijä. Osa 1 2 eksemplarer
Nukentekijä. Osa 2 2 eksemplarer
Le couteau 1 eksemplar
Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow (August 01,1976) 1 eksemplar
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Run Silent, Run Deep / The Dollmaker / Crusader's Tomb / Hunter / Mischief (1955) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Arnow, Harriette Simpson
- Fødselsdato
- 1908-07-07
- Dødsdag
- 1986-03-22
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, USA
- Dødssted
- Washtenaw County, Michigan, USA
- Bopæl
- Burnside, Kentucky, USA
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA - Uddannelse
- University of Louisville
Berea College - Erhverv
- teacher
novelist
short story writer - Organisationer
- Federal Writers' Project
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Weatherford Award (Special, 1978)
- Kort biografi
- Harriette Louisa Simpson Arnow was born and raised in Kentucky. She began writing as a young girl. She spent two years at Berea College, then transferred to the University of Louisville, where she graduated in 1931. After teaching in rural Appalachia for two years, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she worked for the Federal Writers' Project of the WPA. Her first short stories were published in Esquire Magazine under the name H.L. Simpson. Her first novel, Mountain Path, appeared in 1936. In 1939, she married Harold B. Arnow and the couple later moved to Detroit, the setting for her best-known work, The Dollmaker (1954). During her career, she produced five novels, two nonfiction books, a short autobiography, and about 30 short stories, essays, and book reviews.
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There are dozens of ideas in this book that could be discussed and debated at length, but what kept coming to the fore for me was the way one life, one person, can be smothered in the crowd of humanity, and how much humanity itself suffers for this every time it happens. Life in Detroit is a nightmare for Gertie, but not only for Gertie; the alley she lives in is peopled with lives being beaten down and wasted. The factions that divide these people are much less obvious to the reader than the squalid ties that bind them. The contrast between the deprivations of the farm life that begins the novel and the deprivations of the life Gertie finds in Detroit are stark, and while Kentucky is not paradise, it would appear to be when weighed against Detroit.
There is also the religious element that runs through the book: “Religious” in the broadest sense of the word. For Gertie is searching for God, for Christ, and even for Judas. She looks to understand her fate and whether her choices are truly her own or ordained by some higher power. Indeed, there are times when I wondered where God is in the lives of so many helpless and vulnerable people. As is usually the case, the people who most profess to speak in His name are the least like Him.
My heart was broken so many times during the reading of this novel that it felt sometimes as if there were an iron band squeezing it. It is in excess of 600 pages and I strongly feel that not a word is wasted. Right into the Favorites folder with this one, with my only complaint being that the print in the version I was reading was insufferably small for these old eyes. I suppose I will need to be on the lookout for a copy with larger print, since I can easily see the need to read it again someday.
… (mere)