Love Medicine (Perennial Modern Classics) - Softcover

Erdrich, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060786469 ISBN 13: 9780060786465

Publisher: Perennial, 2005

Synopsis

The lives and destinies of two Native American families--the Kashpaws and the Lamartines--intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in a tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Reader's Guide available. Reissue. 35,000 first printing.

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Review:

"A dazzling series of family portraits.... This novel is simply about the power of love.""--Chicago Tribune""The beauty of Love Medicine is the work of a tough, loving mind."-- Toni Morrison"A powerful piece of work . . . Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer; as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted"-- Anne Tyler

About the Author:

Louise Erdrich is the author of fifteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, short stories, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her debut novel, Love Medicine, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Erdrich has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060786469
• ISBN 13: 9780060786465
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 367