Crown Of Columbus - Softcover

Dorris, M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060931655 ISBN 13: 9780060931650

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

In their only fully collaborative literary work, Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich have written a gripping novel of history, suspense, recovery, and new beginnings. The Crown of Columbus chronicles the adventures of a pair of mismatched lovers--Vivian Twostar, a divorced, pregnant anthropologist, and Roger Williams, a consummate academic, epic poet, and bewildered father of Vivian's baby--on their quest for the truth about Christopher Columbus and themselves. When Vivian uncovers what is presumed to be the most diary of Christopher Columbus, she and Roger are drawn into a journey from icy New Hampshire to the idyllic Caribbean in search of "the greatest treasure of Europe." Lured by the wild promise of redeeming the past, they are plunged into a harrowing race against time and death that threatens--and finally changes--their lives. A rollicking tale of adventure, The Crown of Columbus is also contemporary love story and a tender examination of parenthood and passion.

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Review:

"The rare novel that is both literature and good fun."-- Barbara Kingsolver"A thriller and love story...A mediation on power and betrayal...An exhilarating novel of risk, redemption and discovery."-- "Los Angeles Times""Highly entertaining, full of intrigue, wit, search for self and a buried treasure. Suspenseful and clever."-- "Miami Herald""Compelling entertainment...Fast-paced, fluently written...Combines the archaeological suspense of "Raiders of the Ark" with the scholarly thrills of A. S. Byatt's "Possession.""-- "New York Times""Splendid...A novel to cherish and reread...An original genre, using the frame of an adventure yarn to house a love story and a novel of ideas."-- "New Woman"

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: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0060931655
• ISBN 13: 9780060931650
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400