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Dorothy Baker (1) (1907–1968)

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Dorothy Baker (1) via een alias veranderd in Dorothy Dodds Baker.

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Cassandra at the Wedding (1962) 707 exemplaren
Young Man with a Horn (1938) 242 exemplaren
Trio (1943) 45 exemplaren
Our Gifted Son (1948) 3 exemplaren

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Officiële naam
Baker, Dorothy Dodds
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
DODDS, Dorothy (maiden name)
BAKER, Dorothy
BAKER, Dorothy DODDS
Geboortedatum
1907-04-21
Overlijdensdatum
1968-06-17
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Missoula, Montana, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Terra Bella, California, USA
Woonplaatsen
California, USA
Opleiding
Whittier College
University of California, Los Angeles (BA, MA)
Beroepen
teacher
novelist
short story writer
Relaties
Baker, Howard (husband)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship
Korte biografie
Dorothy Dodds was born in Montana and raised in California. After graduating from UCLA in 1929, she traveled in France, where she began writing fiction. In 1930, she married the poet Howard Baker, and the couple moved back to California. Dorothy Baker taught French and Spanish at a private school in Oakland and then returned to UCLA to earn a master's degree. After publishing a few short stories, she began to write full time. In 1938, she published the novel Young Man with a Horn, based on the life of musician Bix Beiderbecke, which won the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1942 and the next year published Trio, a novel about a lesbian relationship that proved too scandalous for its time. She and her husband adapted the novel as a Broadway play in 1944, but it was quickly shut down due to protests. Her final novel was Cassandra at the Wedding, which her husband said was based on her own family. Dorothy Baker died of cancer at age 61.

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148. Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker in Backlisted Book Club (maart 2022)

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(4 1/2 Stars) I will think about the prose in this book for the rest of my life. Cassandra is an absolute force of a main character that feels like an intelligent, intoxicating friend. Mostly, this book is about the (lesbian) fear of a future in which a girlhood in which art, travel, and sisterhood are centered absolutely has to give way to heterosexual marriage. Big things to think about.
Also I love books that are about incredibly specific parts of California, which this book delivers perfectly.… (meer)
 
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griller02 | 23 andere besprekingen | Mar 18, 2024 |
Cassandra At the Wedding by Dorothy Baker was originally published in 1962. It has now been re-published by the New York Review of Books Classics Series and made available to today’s audience. This is an intense story about the relationship between two twin sisters, one of whom is about to get married.

Cassandra has returned to her childhood home to attend her twin’s wedding to a nice, young doctor but she is determined to make her sister call the whole thing off. The book has more than one narrator and I really enjoyed Cassandra’s voice. She’s intense, funny and smart with a definite dark side to her personality. Although her selfishness can seem cruel at times, she was quite likeable. When her twin, Judith became the narrator, I was surprised that I also enjoyed her thoughts and words as well as she definitely has the calmer, more sober personality of the two but she knows and recognizes Cassandra’s darker side.

It is obvious that Cassandra is a lesbian although that fact is never definitely declared in the book. The lesbian overtones are quite subtle which I suspect has a lot to do with the times that the book was published. The family seems to acknowledge and accept Cassandra as she is although Cassandra herself seems to be struggling at times. Cassandra at the Wedding is beautifully written, darkly witty, clever and atmospheric. Dorothy Baker strikes me as a very accomplished author who knows how to write comedy. She also trusts her readers to understand and draw their own conclusions and so doesn’t lay everything out on a platter.
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Ook door
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Leden
997
Populariteit
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Waardering
3.9
Besprekingen
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ISBNs
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