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Arnow charms the reader with her account of what it was like to be child in such a place and time, describing the fascination of the general stores of the town, the grand sight of the Seven Gables Hotel, the excitement of school, and the ever-interesting river and railroad traffic, all of which lent diversion to a life that sometimes seemed overburdened with household chores and errand running.  Though much of old Burnside has disappeared, the way of life Arnow describes is an important part of the fabric of the history of Kentucky and the nation. Evoking vivid scenes of river and railroad, lumber mill and country store, Arnow recreates for us with great artistry a long-vanished place and time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49605432082705,"sku":"GOR013100695","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50297887097105,"sku":"CIN0813108608G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008363921681,"sku":"NIN9780813108605","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0813108608.jpg?v=1750818815"},{"product_id":"dollmaker-book-harriette-simpson-arnow-9780380009473","title":"The Dollmaker","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Dollmaker\u003c\/i\u003e was originally published in 1954 to immediate success and critical acclaim. 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New York Times reviewer Hirschel Brickell declared that Arnow \"writes...as effortlessly as a bird sings, and the warmth, beauty, the sadness and the ache of life itself are not even once absent from her pages\".  Arnow writes about Kentucky in the way that William Faulkner writes about Mississippi, that Flannery O'Connor writes about Georgia, or that Willa Cather writes about Nebraska - with studied realism, with landscapes and characters that take on mythic proportions, with humour, and with memorable and remarkable attention to details of the human heart that motivate literature.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50204070019345,"sku":"CIN087013437XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50414429503761,"sku":"CIN087013437XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/087013437X.jpg?v=1764845585"},{"product_id":"between-the-flowers-book-harriette-arnow-9780870135354","title":"Between the Flowers","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetween the Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e is Harriette Simpson Arnow's second novel. Written in the late 1930s, but unpublished until 1997, this early work shows the development of social and cultural themes that would continue in Arnow's later work: the appeal of wandering and of modern life, the countervailing desire to stay within a traditional community, and the difficulties of communication between men and women in such a community.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e    Between the Flowers\u003c\/i\u003e goes far beyond categories of \"local color,\" literary regionalism, or the agrarian novel, to the heart of human relationships in a modernized world. Arnow, who went on to write \u003ci\u003eHunter's Horn\u003c\/i\u003e (1949) and \u003ci\u003eThe Dollmaker\u003c\/i\u003e (1952)--her two most famous works--has continually been overlooked by critics as a regional writer. 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