Dollmaker

"Harriet Arnow's brutal, beautiful novel, 'The Dollmaker', has a permanent effect upon the reader: long after one has put it aside, he is still in the presence of its people, absorbed in their trivial and tragic dilemma, sorting out their mistakes, rearranging their possibilities, pondering upon the fate that makes certain people live certain lives, suffer certain atrocities, while other people only read about them....Our most unpretentious American masterpiece....Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson is the author of 'Dollmaker', published 1999 under ISBN 9780380009473 and ISBN 0380009471.