The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich Paperback Book

Description: The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich A beautiful, compelling, utterly original new novel from one of the most important American writers of our time, and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012 FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A beautiful, compelling, utterly original new novel from one of the most important American writers of our time, and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012 Pluto, North Dakota, is a town on the verge of extinction. Here, everybody is connected â" by love or friendship, by blood, and, most importantly, by the burden of a shared history.Growing up on the reservation is Evelina Harp, witty and ambitious, and prone to falling hopelessly in love. Listening to her grandfathers tales, she learns of a horrific crime that has marked both Ojibwe and whites. Nobody understands it better than Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, who keeps watch over Plutos inhabitants and recounts their lives with compassion and rare insight.Louise Erdrichs sense of the comic and the tragic sweeps readers along to the surprising conclusion of this stunning novel, a portrait of the complex allegiances, passions and drama of a haunting land and its all-too-human people. Notes A beautiful, compelling and utterly original new novel from the award-winning author of Love Medicine and The Painted Drum. Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer, as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted Anne Tyler Author Biography Louise Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and is the author of many bestselling and critically acclaimed novels. She lives in Minnesota with her family, where she runs an independent bookstore, The Birchbark House. You can Review Louise Erdrichs imaginative freedom has reached its zenith -- "The Plague of Doves" is her dazzling masterpiece Philip Roth A masterly new novel!Writing in prose that combines the magical sleight of hand of Gabriel Garcia Marquez with the earthy, American rhythms of Faulkner, Ms. Erdrich!has written what is arguably her most ambitious--and in many ways, her most deeply affecting--work yet Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Confirms her reputation as a writer able to combine the apocalyptic with the mundane world whose inhabitants are set loose to roam the heavens in spirit but are ballasted always by their defiantly human bodies. Observer You could read Louise Erdrichs latest book for its wisdom...Or you could read The Plague of Doves for its poetry...in the end, youll read this book for its stories...The stories told by her characters offer pleasures of language, of humor, of sheer narrative momentum, that shine even in the darkest moments of the book Boston Globe Wholly felt and exquisitely rendered tales of memory and magic...By the novels end, and in classic Erdrich fashion, every luminous fragment has been assembled into an intricate tapestry that deeply satisfies the mind, the heart, and the spirit O magazine The Plague of Doves is Erdrichs dazzling masterpiece. Philip Roth A masterly new novel!Writing in prose that combines the magical sleight of hand of Gabriel Garcia Marquez with the earthy, American rhythms of Faulkner, Ms. Erdrich!has written what is arguably her most ambitious--and in many ways, her most deeply affecting--work yet. Michiko Kakutani, New York Times You could read Louise Erdrichs latest book for its wisdom...Or you could read The Plague of Doves for its poetry...in the end, youll read this book for its stories...The stories told by her characters offer pleasures of language, of humor, of sheer narrative momentum, that shine even in the darkest moments of the book. Boston Globe Wholly felt and exquisitely rendered tales of memory and magic...By the novels end, and in classic Erdrich fashion, every luminous fragment has been assembled into an intricate tapestry that deeply satisfies the mind, the heart, and the spirit. O magazine Praise for Louise Erdrich: Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer, as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted. Anne Tyler Intricate and beautifully written...Erdrich is a writer who believes that life is change and who is never afraid to let her characters experience it. Margot Livesey, Boston Sunday Globe, on The Painted Drum Intimate and epic, tender and violent...Erdrich manages to reveal the hope and fears, the history and gossip, the public and private myths of an entire community. She writes with immense sympathy, without a trace of moralism, and with a grace that makes the most extreme, even gothic, events plausible and convincing. Francine Prose, People Magazine, on The Master Butchers Singing Club Joyful and miraculous...It is no small feat to create a whole world, people it believably, and then record the histories of those people (one thinks of Faulkner and Garcia Marquez), but Louise Erdrich is more than equal to the task. San Francisco Chronicle on The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse Kirkus US Review The latest Erdrich novel (The Painted Drum, 2005, etc.) about the Ojibwes and the whites they live among in North Dakota spirals around a terrible multiple murder that reverberates down through generations of a community.In the 1960s, Evelina Harps Ojibwe grandfather, Mooshum, tells mesmerizing stories of his past. Having found a murdered family and saved the surviving baby, Mooshum and three Ojibwe friends were blamed for the killings and lynched by a mob of local whites in 1911. For reasons not immediately apparent, Mooshum was spared at the last moment, but his friends died. Evelinas first boyfriend is Corwin Peace, whose ancestor was one of those lynched. Her favorite teacher, a nun, descends from one of the mob leaders. And Evelinas middle-class parents of mixed heritage straddle the two cultures. Aunt Neve Harp sent her banker husband, who is Corwins father, to prison after he arranged Neves kidnapping by Corwins then teenage uncle Billy in a phony ransom subplot (a little reminiscent of the movie Fargo). Spiritual Billy evolves into the tyrannical leader of a religious cult until his wife Marn Wolde, the daughter of farmers whose land hes taken over, kills him to save her children. While in college Evelina ends up briefly in a mental hospital where she gets to know Marns lunatic uncle Warren. Corwin, under the positive influence of Judge Coutts and his new wife, Evelinas Aunt Geraldine, becomes a musician playing the same violin that once belonged to his ancestors. Judge Couttss previous lover Cordelia, an older woman and a doctor who wont treat Indians, was once saved by Mooshum and his friends. Guilt and redemption pepper these self-sufficient, intertwining stories, and readers who can keep track of the characters will find their efforts rewarded. The magic lies in the details of Erdrichs ever-replenishing mythology, whether of a lost stamp collection or a boys salvation.A lush, multilayered book. (Kirkus Reviews) Review Quote Praise for Louise Erdrich:Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer, as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted. Anne TylerIntricate and beautifully written...Erdrich is a writer who believes that life is change and who is never afraid to let her characters experience it. Margot Livesey, Boston Sunday Globe, on _The Painted Drum_Intimate and epic, tender and violent...Erdrich manages to reveal the hope and fears, the history and gossip, the public and private myths of an entire community. She writes with immense sympathy, without a trace of moralism, and with a grace that makes the most extreme, even gothic, events plausible and convincing. Francine Prose, People Magazine, on _The Master Butchers Singing Club_Joyful and miraculous...It is no small feat to create a whole world, people it believably, and then record the histories of those people (one thinks of Faulkner and Garc Feature * Louise Erdrich is one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation and this should be a breakthrough novel for her. * She won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Love Medicine, the Chicago Tribunes Heartland Prize for Fiction for The Painted Drum and was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction with The Last Report On The Miracles At Little No Horse. * She won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012. * Bravura storytelling by Erdrich who is a master of the art. * Parts of the novel have been excerpted in The New Yorker. Competition: Toni Morrison, Anne Tyler Description for Sales People A beautiful, compelling, utterly original new novel from one of the most important American writers of our time, and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012 Pluto, North Dakota, is a town on the verge of extinction. Here, everybody is connected - by love or friendship, by blood, and, most importantly, by the burden of a shared history. Growing up on the reservation is Evelina Harp, witty and ambitious, and prone to falling hopelessly in love. Listening to her grandfathers tales, she learns of a horrific crime that has marked both Ojibwe and whites. Nobody understands it better than Judge Antone Bazil Coutts, who keeps watch over Plutos inhabitants and recounts their lives with compassion and rare insight. Louise Erdrichs sense of the comic and the tragic sweeps readers along to the surprising conclusion of this stunning novel, a portrait of the complex allegiances, passions and drama of a haunting land and its all-too-human people. * Louise Erdrich is one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation and this should be a breakthrough novel for her. * She won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Love Medicine, the Chicago Tribunes Heartland Prize for Fiction for The Painted Drum and was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction with The Last Report On The Miracles At Little No Horse. * She won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012. * Bravura storytelling by Erdrich who is a master of the art. * Parts of the novel have been excerpted in The New Yorker. Competition: Toni Morrison, Anne Tyler Details ISBN0007270763 Author Louise Erdrich Pages 356 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Year 2008 ISBN-10 0007270763 ISBN-13 9780007270767 Format Paperback Imprint HarperPerennial Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Birth 1954 Media Book Series HarperPerennial Publication Date 2008-05-05 UK Release Date 2008-05-05 Alternative 9780062277732 Audience General AU Release Date 2008-07-07 NZ Release Date 2008-07-10 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:14405984;

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