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Love medicine / Louise Erdrich.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harper Perennial modern classicsPublication details: New York : Harper Perennial, ©2009.Edition: Newly revised edition [HarperPerrenial Modern Classics]Description: 333, 51 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780061787423
  • 0061787426
  • 9780062206312
  • 0062206311
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The world's greatest fishermen -- Saint Marie -- Wild geese -- The island -- The beads -- Lulu's boys -- The plunge of the brave -- Flesh and blood -- A bridge -- The red convertible -- Scales -- Crown of thorns -- Love medicine -- Resurrection -- The good tears -- Crossing the water.
Awards:
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 1984
Summary: The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in an authentic tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Fiction ERDRICH, LOUISE In transit from Main Library to Dr. James Carlson Library since 05/09/2024 water damage on top corner of pages in second half of book. 5/1/2023 33111010989529
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction ERDRICH, LOUISE Checked out 04/22/2024 33111010858468
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"The beauty of Love Medicine saves us from being completely devastated by its power." -- Toni Morrison

Set on a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine--the first novel from master storyteller and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich--is an epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.

With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter of this stunning novel draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements into a tightly woven whole that pulses with the drama of life.

Erdrich has written a multigenerational portrait of strong men and women caught in an unforgettable whirlwind of anger, desire, and the healing power that is love medicine.

"P.S., insights, interviews & more"--Cover.

"I have worked over a few small sections that were added in 1995, but the biggest change is this: I have deleted one of the chapters ("Lyman's Luck") added in the 1995 expanded edition, and moved another ("The Tomahawk Factory") to the P.S. section at the back of the book"--2009 Author's note, p. 5 (second sequence).

The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in an authentic tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love.

The world's greatest fishermen -- Saint Marie -- Wild geese -- The island -- The beads -- Lulu's boys -- The plunge of the brave -- Flesh and blood -- A bridge -- The red convertible -- Scales -- Crown of thorns -- Love medicine -- Resurrection -- The good tears -- Crossing the water.

National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 1984

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