Bibliograph

The last days of Dogtown, a novel, Anita Diamant

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The last days of Dogtown, a novel, Anita Diamant

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The last days of Dogtown

Oclc number

58604792

Responsibility statement

Anita Diamant

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Set on Cape Ann in the early 1800s, The Last Days of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and "witches." Nearly a decade ago, Diamant found an account of an abandoned rural backwater near the Massachusetts coastline at the turn of the nineteenth century. That pamphlet inspired a stunning novel about a small group of eccentrics and misfits, struggling in a harsh, isolated landscape only fifty miles north of Boston, yet a world away

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