Love Medicine - Softcover

Louise Erdrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553344234 ISBN 13: 9780553344233

Publisher: Bantam, 1989

Synopsis

Expanded to include never-before-published chapters, this collection of interrelated stories of love, betrayal, mystery, and madness concerns men and woman bound by blood, legend, tradition, and need. 10,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

‘A masterpiece, written with spellbinding authenticity and animated by a spirited comic energy.’ Philip Roth

'The beauty of ‘Love Medicine’ saves us from being completely devastated by its power.' Toni Morrison

'A powerful piece of work … Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer, as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted.' Anne Tyler

'The impression is of a river of memory bursting its banks and overflowing upon the page in an irresistible flood.' Angela Carter

'Erdrich presents a variety of voices: each forceful in its own way, each adding a different dimension – cruel, sombre, humorous – to what is cumulously a wondrous prose song … ‘Love Medicine’ is finally about the enduring verities of loving and surviving, and these truths are revealed in a narrative that is an invigorating mixture of the cosmic and the tragic.' New York Times

About the Author:

Louise Erdrich is the author of fourteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, short stories, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Erdrich's first novel, The Plague of Doves, was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. The second, The Round House, won The National Book Award, the 2014 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction and the 2015 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
She lives in Minnesota, where she owns the bookstore Birchbark Books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0553344234
• ISBN 13: 9780553344233
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5