The Last Days of Dogtown: A Novel

The Last Days of Dogtown: A Novel
ISBN-10
0743225732
ISBN-13
9780743225731
Series
The Last Days of Dogtown
Category
Dogtown Commons (Gloucester, Mass.)
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Scribner Book Company
Author
Anita Diamant

Description

Based loosely on a true story of a historic community, this novel is set on Cape Ann in the early 1800s. Peopled with widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, free Africans, and "witches," it resurrects a forgotten sector of society.

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