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Love Medicine

By Louise Erdrich
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Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich weaves together the lives of several generations of a Chippewa family on a North Dakota reservation. Through interconnected stories, it explores themes of love, loss, and identity, capturing the complexities and beauty of Native American life. Each narrative reveals deep emotional truths and the enduring strength of familial bonds.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy exploring interconnected stories of family, culture, and identity within Native American communities. Louise Erdrich crafts a rich tapestry of characters whose lives intersect over generations, combining elements of magic, love, and resilience against the backdrop of reservation life. If you appreciate lyrical prose and profound insights into human relationships, you'll likely find this narrative captivating.

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

Includes an illuminating PS section with a new essay and author profile by Eithne Farry, literary editor at Elle magazine.

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Beautiful reissue of Louise Erdrich's most famous novel, from one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation. Set on and around a North Dakota reservation, Love Medicine tells of the intertwined fates of two families, the Lamartines and the Kashpaws.

The women at the heart of this extraordinary community are survivors in a harsh and tumultuous world, united and sustained by the strength and diversity of their love— the sweet delusion of the flesh; the powerful pull of blood ties; the affection for the old ways vying with the irresistible lure of the new. Their voices mingle and blend to form a continuous braided sequence of narratives which pulse with the sheer energy and drama of life.

Greeted with great critical acclaim when first published in 1984, Love Medicine won the US National Book Critics' Circle Award. Louise Erdrich has now substantially revised and expanded the novel for this edition, to complement its companion novels, The Beet Queen, Tracks and The Bingo Palace.

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Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine is praised for its emotional depth and authenticity, weaving a tapestry of powerful family narratives. Reviewers highlight its blend of compassion and sharp insight, evoking a range of emotions from humour to tragedy. The novel is described as a masterful prose song, capturing the enduring nature of love and survival with compelling authenticity.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780006546191

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 June 1994

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: HarperPerennial

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 400

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About the Author

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.

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