The Master Butchers Singing Club: A Novel - Softcover

Erdrich, Louise

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9780060935337: The Master Butchers Singing Club: A Novel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060935332 ISBN 13: 9780060935337

Publisher: Perennial, 2004

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Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, a home for his family -- which includes Eva and four sons -- and a singing club consisting of the best voices in town. When the Old World meets the New -- in the person of Delphine Watzka -- the great adventure of Fidelis's life begins. Delphine meets Eva and is enchanted. She meets Fidelis, and the ground trembles. These momentous encounters will determine the course of Delphine's life, and the trajectory of this brilliant novel.

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Review:

"[A] masterpiece. Erdrich never hits a false note." -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Rich and vibrant .Magnificent." -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Lush and stark . employing vivid imagery, deft description and dialogue that flows . Stunning language." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Each moment and its particulars dazzles . Fidelis and firm-bellied Delphine and the rest [of the characters] are masterworks." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Satisfying and life-affirming." -- Atlantic Monthly

"Miraculous .[Erdrich is] at the peak of powers as a writer . Her work is as melodious as ever." -- Boston Globe

"Emotionally resonant." -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"A brilliantly layered look at war's costs .Daring, graceful, comprehending and, rooted in the great plains, uniquely American." -- Kansas City Star

"Grand and generous fiction. Erdrich's most sweeping and ambitious yet." -- BookPage

"[A] magnificent tale . poignant in the mysteries it evokes and patient with the questions is leaves unanswered." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

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.

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