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An impressive storyteller with vast imaginative range, Anita Diamant gave voice to the silent women of the Old Testament in debt Tent. Now, in her third novel, she brings to vivid life an early on New England world that history has forgotten.Set on Cape Ann in the first 1800s, THE FINAL Days of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and "witches." Among the list of inhabitants of Dogtown is Black Ruth, an African woman who dresses as a man and works as a stone mason; Mrs. Stanley, an imperious madam whose grandson, Sammy, comes of age in her rural brothel; Oliver Younger, who survives a miserable childhood at the hands of a very strange aunt; and Cornelius Finson, a freed slave whose race denies him everything. At the guts of it all is Judy Rhines, a fiercely independent soul, deeply lonely, who nonetheless builds a life for herself and inspires those around her to become more generous and tolerant themselves.This is a tale of hardship and resilience -- and an extraordinary re-creation associated with an untold chapter of early American life. With an enthusiastic ear for language and profound compassion on her behalf characters, Diamant has created her most moving and powerful story.
