GordonĪdmired the gingham apron the doll wore and “the general air ofĮxistential blankness” that pervades the book. The toys at once tender and eerie in their precise artificiality. The carefully staged tableaux are shot in black and white, the poses of Theīook’s cover is rimmed in a bright-pink gingham pattern, but, inside, Bear leaves on an errand, Edith and herĬompanion, Little Bear, set off to explore the empty house together. Photographic illustrations composed by Dare Wright, tells the story of aĭoll named Edith, who lives all alone in a house, praying for company, until, one day, two stuffed bears show up andīefriend her. Gordon, who grew up in Southern California, in the sixties, told the Times Book Review. “It was my first view, my first idea, of New York as a glamorous place,” Today, what would it be?” the musician Kim Gordon cited the children’s book “The Lonely Doll,” from 1957. In the six decades since it was published, “The Lonely Doll” hasīecome a cult classic, beloved especially among a generation of womenĪ couple of years ago, when asked, “If any book made you who you are
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