false<![CDATA[Lummox]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1186062620m/1626711.jpg162671111923. 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 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.162076462005Lummoxtotal:5|5:3|4:1|3:1|2:0|1:0|5229350falsefalseThu Apr 30 14:51:19 -0700 2009Thu Apr 30 14:53:09 -0700 2009 A clumsy larger woman again.. working as a maid.. her inner emotions. Found this among the heavenly dusty old stacks up three floors at the massive Cleveland Public Library downtown Cleveland on Superior Ave in...more...]]>
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