Lummox
by Fannie Hurst
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1923. Hurst, an American author, is noted for her sympathetic, sentimental novels including Lummox, Back Street, Imitation of Life and God Must Be Sad. Lummox begins: Nobody quite knew just what Baltic bloods flowed in sullen and alien rivers through Bertha's veins-or cared, might be added. Bertha, least of all. She was five feet, nine and a half, of flat-breasted bigness and her cheekbones were pitched like Norn's. Little tents. There must have been a good smattering of Scandinavian and show more even a wide streak of western Teutonic, Slav, too. Because unaccountably she found herself knowing the Polish national anthem. Recognized it with her heart as it rattled out of a hurdy-gurdy. In her carpetbag, an outlandish one with a steamship stamp on it, were a bit of Bulgarian embroidery, a runic brooch, a concertina with a punctured bellows and an ikon in imitation mosaic. Old world. show lessTags
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$240. good condition. Hurst's novel follows Bertha over the course of her life as she finds domestic work for several upper-class families around the Manhattan area of NYC, around the start of the 20th century. Bertha is a large woman, 5'10 and stocky in build, plain in the looks department. Her no-frills, blue-collar look and quiet nature lead many of her employers over the years to deem her a "lummox", a term once used to describe someone who seems stupid, dim-witted. Orphaned at a young age,
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction
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- 813.52 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1900-1945
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- PS3515 .U785 .L8 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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