The last days of dogtown
By: Anita Diamant
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781405049672; 9780333989371
Subjects: Social conditions; People with social disabilities; Fiction
Description: Set on Cape Ann in the early 1800s, [this book] is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and "witches." ... Among the inhabitants of Dogtown are 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 center 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.-Dust jacket.
Notes: Originally published: 2005.
Table of contents: title: The death of Abraham Wharf; title: An unexpected visit; title: Greyling; title: Tammy Younger's toothache; title: Strange sightings; title: Stanwood reformed; title: The lost girls; title: Oliver Younger's heart; title: Departure; title: Cornelius; title: His own man; title: Easter and Ruth; title: A last wish.