The Dollmaker

Name: The Dollmaker
Author: Harriette Arnow

by Harriette Arnow

Novel about Appalachian woman displaced to Detroit factory town during World War II

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Harriette Arnow

Harriette Arnow wrote The Dollmaker, one of the most powerful American novels about the uprooting of Appalachian culture by wartime industrialization. Gertie Nevels is one of the most fully realized characters in American fiction.

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