num_pages: 608
description: Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevel's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills was devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted form their backwoods home, she and her family were thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit. And in a pitiless world of unendurable poverty, Gertie would battle fiercely and relentlessly to protect those things she held most precious--her children, her heritage...and her triumphant ability to create beauty in the suffocating shadow of ugliness and despair.
language: English
title: The Dollmaker
titlecomplete: The Dollmaker
characters: Clovis Nevels, Gertie Nevels
genres: 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Southern, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Family, Fiction
ratings_count: 3595
places: Detroit, Michigan, Kentucky
awards: awardedAt: -473356800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Avon