The Beet Queen - Softcover

Erdrich, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553268074 ISBN 13: 9780553268072

Publisher: Bantam, 1987

Synopsis

Publisher: Bantam Books
Date of Publication: 1987
Binding: paperback
Edition:
Condition: Good
Description: 0553268074

About this title

Review:

'A perfect – and perfectly wonderful – novel.' Anne Tyler

'Violent, passionate, surprising ... ‘The Beet Queen’ imparts its freshness of vision like an electric shock.' Angela Carter

'She is a writer of formidable strength and imagination, and she presents the fruits of both in a prose of flexible, haunting beauty.' Bernard Levin, Sunday Times

'A remarkable and luminous novel.' New York Times

From the Back Cover:

On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, Mary seeks refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt and her husband, while Karl gets back on the train. So begins an exhilarating forty-year saga brimming with colorful, unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary, who will cause a miracle; seductive Karl, who lacks his sister's gift for survival; Sita, their lovely but disturbed cousin; and the half-Native American Celestine James, who will become Mary's best friend. Theirs is a story grounded in the tenacity of relationships, the extraordinary magic of natural events, and the unending mystery of the human condition.

Bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich dazzles in this vibrant and heartfelt tale of abandonment and sexual obsession, jealousy and unstinting love that explores with empathy, humor, and power the eternal mystery of the human condition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0553268074
• ISBN 13: 9780553268072
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback