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...beauty with creamy skin and silky hair, a mortician's daughter and a mobster's moll who escapes with Joe from the Great Depression. They can never run far enough; the depression overwhelms them, the world closes in until the glamorous doll is no more than a housewife in Jacksontown, Indiana, and the noble free-spirit is the headlight man on the assembly line at Bennett Autobody Number Six in Jacksontown, Indiana, in the winter of 1936. The Depression clutches at them again, they need to escape, and they...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: A Conjurer of Words | 11/8/1980 | See Source »

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