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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright

Nathan, Jean

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Publisher Price: $23.99

ISBN10: 0312424922
ISBN13: 9780312424923
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: Aug 1 2005
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made the author, Dare Wright, a household name. Close to forty years after its publication, the book was out of print but not forgotten. When the cover image inexplicably came to journalist Jean Nathan one afternoon, she went in search of the book--and ultimately its author. Nathan found Dare Wright living out her last days in a decrepit public hospital in Queens, New York. Over the next five years, Nathan pieced together Dare Wright's bizarre life of glamour and painful isolation to create this mesmerizing biography of a woman who struggled to escape the imprisonment of her childhood through her art.

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