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Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed
Edna Ferber
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Dawn O’Hara, the Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber’s first novel. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctor’s orders. Years of living in boarding-houses and working to pay for the care of her brilliant but mentally ill husband, Peter Orme, have taken their toll. At twenty-eight, Dawn feels like an old woman with no future. But, the loving care of her sister Norah and her family along with the attentions of the handsome German doctor, Ernst Von Gerhard, slowly bring Dawn back to life. With Dr. Von Gerhard’s help, she obtains a newspaper job in Milwaukee and begins a year of new adventures among new people. However, the specter of her husband living in a mental hospital is always present and Dawn fears she may never be free to love again.
Dawn O’Hara, the Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber’s first novel. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctor’s orders. Years of living in boarding-houses and working to pay for the care of her brilliant but mentally ill husband, Peter Orme, have taken their toll. At twenty-eight, Dawn feels like an old woman with no future. But, the loving care of her sister Norah and her family along with the attentions of the handsome German doctor, Ernst Von Gerhard, slowly bring Dawn back to life. With Dr. Von Gerhard’s help, she obtains a newspaper job in Milwaukee and begins a year of new adventures among new people. However, the specter of her husband living in a mental hospital is always present and Dawn fears she may never be free to love again.
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And out I went. Hatless, I strode countrywards, leaving paved streets and concrete walks far behind. There were drifts of fallen leaves all about, and I scuffled through them drearily, trying to feel gloomy, and old, and useless, and failing because of the tang in the air, and the red-and-gold wonder of the frost-kissed leaves, and the regular pump-pump of good red blood that was coursing through my body as per Norah's request.
In a field at the edge of the town, just where city and country begin to have a bowing acquaintance, the college boys were at footb. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Even though Edna Ferber is known for her stirring epics such as
"Giant" and "Cimarron", for her first book she turned to the
heady world of newspaper reporting, something that her work on
the Appleton Daily Crescent and the Milwaukee Journal prepared
her for.
I've never been a huge Ferber fan but this
This is the story of Dawn O'Hara, who finds the humor in things. She's charming and witty and stubborn and likable. It's her tale of struggle with romance, growing friendships and relationships, sacrifices and overcoming her past and embracing the future. It is a wonderful, easy read and I recommend
A solid Ferber. My favorite is the description of food! Makes me crave good German.
لقد وجدت هذا الكتاب و قرأته باللغة العربية ، و لهذا فسأترك تعليقي باللغة العربية ... أحببت هذه القصة ، علني لأنني وجدت تشابهًا كبيرًا بيني و بين (دون )... إن (دون) بحسها الفكاهي الذي ورثته عن أجدادها ، و بقدرتها على الضحك في مواقف هستيرية ، أو حتى و هي تبكي ، تكاد تكون أنا . أحببت (دون) هذه القوية ا