Shadow Tag: A Novel (P.S.) - Softcover

Erdrich, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061536105 ISBN 13: 9780061536106

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2011

Synopsis

Pub Date: 2011-02-01 Pages: 272 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US When Irene America discovers that her artist husband. Gil. has been reading her diary. she begins a secret Blue Notebook. stashed securely in a safe-deposit box . There she records the truth about her life and marriage. while turning her Red Diary-hidden where Gil will find it-into a manipulative charade. As Irene and Gil fight to keep up appearances for their three children. their home becomes a place of increasing violence and secrecy. And Irene drifts into alcoholism. moving ever closer to the ultimate destruction of a relationship filled with shadowy need and strange ironies. Alternating between Irenes twin journals and an unflinching third-person narrative. Louise Erdrichs Shadow Tag fearlessly explores the complex nature of love. the fluid boundaries of identity. and the anatomy of one family...

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Review:

“Gripping...a hushed and haunting tale.” (USA Today)

“A portrait of an ‘iconic’ marriage on its way to dissolution...Erdrich’s unbridled urgency yields startlingly original phrasing as well as flashes of blinding lucidity.” (New York Times Book Review)

“ A fierce novel...raw...alive...vividly present...it marks a breakthrough for the author.” (Columbus Dispatch)

“Read this if: You’re looking for a well-written, well-told tale that is thought- and discussion- provoking.” (Baltimore Sun)

“A page-turner...a most compelling novel” (Dallas Morning News)

“SHADOW TAG is hard to put down...It builds to a spectacular ending with a twist I didn’t see coming...Erdrich has taken a tragedy and turned it into art.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)

“A domestic drama that builds an almost thriller-like momentum...A novel as dark and tragic as it is difficult to put down” (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Clear, urgent, deep as a swift river...accomplishes the literary miracle of making a reader ravenous to finish it, while stinging with regret at how soon it must end.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

“SHADOW TAG is compelling...a searing, personal examination of one family that’s falling apart.” (Miami Herald)

“An exquisite, character-driven tale...its piercing insights into sex, family, and power are breathtaking...A masterfully concentrated and gripping novel of image and conquest, autonomy and love, inheritance and loss.” (Donna Seaman, Booklist)

From the Back Cover:

“Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.”

When Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary—hidden where Gil will find it—into a manipulative charade. As Irene and Gil fight to keep up appearances for their three children, their home becomes a place of increasing violence and secrecy. And Irene drifts into alcoholism, moving ever closer to the ultimate destruction of a relationship filled with shadowy need and strange ironies.

Alternating between Irene’s twin journals and an unflinching third-person narrative, Shadow Tag fearlessly explores the complex nature of love, the fluid boundaries of identity, and the anatomy of one family’s struggle for survival and redemption.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061536105
• ISBN 13: 9780061536106
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272