Dicey learned early that hard work is essential to maintaining
independence; now, at 21, she pursues a vocational goal so
relentlessly that she imperils all she holds most dear - in this
somber conclusion to the Tillerman cycle. Jeff wants to marry
Dicey, soon; Dicey loves him deeply and for the right reasons, but
puts him off: she has dropped out of school hoping to support
herself - and the family - by building boats. Though she has worked
diligently for a nest egg and lovingly reclaimed a collection of
old tools in preparation, she is underfunded and - worse -
unprepared in more essential ways. When the tools are stolen, she
learns she should have been insured; she loses her only order
because she lacks a contract; instead of actually building, she
takes on the grueling task of painting 30 poorly made rowboats in
order to meet expenses. Meanwhile, an enigmatic, silver-tongued
drifter helps Dicey understand how narrow she has become and
pitches in with the work - for which he finally exacts his own
bitter price; and Dicey is so absorbed that she ignores Jeff for
weeks and doesn't notice that Gran is seriously ill until it is
almost too late. No one who loves the Tillermans - whose joys and
troubles are as compelling as ever - will want to miss this. As a
novel on its own, driven though Dicey is, it is more than a
cautionary tale about a workaholic; the brothers' and sisters'
experiences are richly textured and carefully interrelated, with
Maybeth's failure/success especially telling in contrast to
Dicey's. Dicey's flight from marriage may seem insufficiently
explained by her yen to build, but might in fact have been
predicted from her parents' traumatic relationship. Dicey's union
with Jeff has been long foreseen; here, their coming together seems
less inevitable and sadly bleak. Still, with her usual skill, Voigt
convinces us that this is the way it would be. (Kirkus Reviews)
The seventh and final book in Cynthia Voigt's acclaimed Tillerman
Series, about Dicey Tillerman and her family, where Dicey enters
adulthood, learning life's lessons the hard way. Dicey Tillerman
knows you don't get what you want just by wanting it. She's
prepared to work harder than she has ever done before to earn her
living as a boat-builder. But running a business proves to be
tougher than she could have imagined. So when a drifter turns up at
her shop offering help for free - Dicey accepts. But does she trust
him too much? A moving tale that pulls no punches, Seventeen
Against the Dealer follows characters introduced in Book One of the
Tillerman Series, Homecoming, now a Collins Modern Classic.
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