Louise Erdrich

Broschiertes Buch

Love Medicine

Beschreibung

Beautiful reissue of Louise Erdrichâ s most famous novel, from one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation and winner of the National Book Award 2012.

Autor

Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of American novelists. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. She is the author of many novels, the first of which, Love Medicine, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the last of which, The Round House, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012. She lives in Minnesota.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 129mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780006546191
• ISBN-10: 0006546196
• Artikelnr.: 21864305

Rezensionen

"We know we are in the hands of an exceptionally skilled, sensitive, observant writer ... Love Medicine is the work of a tough, loving mind." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

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

"A masterpiece, written with spellbinding authenticity." - Philip Roth

"Lyrical and funny, mystical and down-to-earth, Love Medicine entrances" - Christian Science Monitor

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

"A wondrous prose song . . . about the enduring verities of love and surviving, and these truths are revealed in a narrative that is an invigorating mixture of the cosmic and the tragic." - New York Times Book Review

"A remarkable first novel that stares more boldly at many of the truths of Native American life in the country than any fiction I've read.... It is a deeply, if ironically, spirited novel." - Chicago Sun-Times

"A wondrous prose song . . . about the enduring verities of love and surviving, and these truths are revealed in a narrative that is an invigorating mixture of the cosmic and the tragic." - New York Times Book Review
"A powerful piece of work . . . Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer; as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted" - Anne Tyler
"We know we are in the hands of an exceptionally skilled, sensitive, observant writer ... Love Medicine is the work of a tough, loving mind." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
"The beauty of Love Medicine saves us from being completely devastated by its power." - Toni Morrison
"Lyrical and funny, mystical and down-to-earth, Love Medicine entrances" - Christian Science Monitor
"A masterpiece, written with spellbinding authenticity." - Philip Roth
"A remarkable first novel that stares more boldly at many of the truths of Native American life in the country than any fiction I've read.... It is a deeply, if ironically, spirited novel." - Chicago Sun-Times