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The last days of Dogtown a novel

Dogtown is populated by the castaways of society--prostitutes, widows, orphans and African Americans. Its people are reviled by the surrounding communities. Symbolizing Dogtown's fate are residents Cornelius Finson, a freed slave, and Judy Rhines, an unmarried white woman. Lovers for years, Cornelius and Judy are forced apart by intolerance, and their suffering mirrors the desperation of their entire community.

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  • "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."
  • "Dogtown is populated by the castaways of society--prostitutes, widows, orphans and African Americans. Its people are reviled by the surrounding communities. Symbolizing Dogtown's fate are residents Cornelius Finson, a freed slave, and Judy Rhines, an unmarried white woman. Lovers for years, Cornelius and Judy are forced apart by intolerance, and their suffering mirrors the desperation of their entire community."@en
  • "Dogtown is populated by the castaways of society--prostitutes, widows, orphans and African Americans. Its people are reviled by the surrounding communities. Symbolizing Dogtown's fate are residents Cornelius Finson, a freed slave, and Judy Rhines, an unmarried white woman. Lovers for years, Cornelius and Judy are forced apart by intolerance, and their suffering mirrors the desperation of their entire community."
  • "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."
  • "The village of Dogtown on Cape Ann in Massachusetts is home to society's outcasts: widows, spinsters, prostitutes, and former slaves--all of whom are despised by the residents of the neighboring towns. In this declining community, whose members are too poor, old, or obstinate to move away, we follow the lives of characters such as Judy Rhines, an unmarried white woman whose love for freed slave Cornelius Finson is forbidden even in Dogtown, and Black Ruth, an African woman who dresses in men's clothing and works as a stonemason."@en
  • "Dogtown is populated by the castaways of society--prostitutes, widows, orphans and African Americans. Its people are reviled by surrounding communities. The suffering of Cornelius, a freed slave, and Judy, an unmarried white woman who have been lovers for years, mirrors the desperation of the entire community."@en

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