The Dollmaker, Harriet Arnow, 1954, United States, NOVEL
"In the opening scene of The Dollmaker, a rough-hewn, uneducated woman performs a tracheotomy on her dying son, guided only by her love for her child and rural common sense..."There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, 'We will, we will make seed before we die.'..."
"In the opening scene of The Dollmaker, a rough-hewn, uneducated woman performs a tracheotomy on her dying son, guided only by her love for her child and rural common sense..."There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, 'We will, we will make seed before we die.'..."
(E.B., p. 22)