The Washington Post, October 2nd, 2005
THE LAST DAYS OF DOGTOWN By Anita Diamant Scribner. 263 pp. $25 In one of his short stories, Richard Ford wrote that we do not remember the past; we only imagine it. For no contemporary novelist is this truer than for Anita Diamant, whose latest book is set in the early 19th century on Cape Ann, a stony nubbin of Massachusetts coastline that, according to an old local joke, was "the last place that God created, since it was where He dumped all the rocks that were of no use elsewhere." Diamant's new novel is not, as its publisher claims, a work of historical fiction. More accurately, what she...
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