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Synopsis
This novel, which spans seven generations and is set in Minneapolis, is peopled with its citizens, past and present--many of them Native Americans from nearby reservations. Winner of the 1999 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and a "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
| Size | | Length: | 240 pages | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 4.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Ever since the beginning, these twins are sewing."
Industry Reviews
"This is realism at its most magical, in a novel as satisfying as any Erdrich has written."
Kirn
"The point is not that Ms. Erdrich's fiction, like that of many writers, mirrors some of her own experiences; the point is that 'The Antelope Wife' stands as one of her most powerful and fully imagined novels yet. Though 'The Antelope Wife' is marred by occasional patches of overwriting, the book marks a happy return to the elliptical, dreamlike storytelling of Ms. Erdrich's earliest novels....Ms. Erdrich has returned to doing what she does best: using multiple viewpoints and strange, surreal tales within tales to conjure up a family's legacy of love, duty and guilt....She has given us a fiercely imagined tale of love and loss, a story that manages to transform tragedy into comic redemption, sorrow into heroic survival. She has given us a wonderfully sad, funny and affecting novel."
Kakutani
"Richly cadenced, deeply textured, Erdrich's writing has the luster and sheen of poetry, each sentence circling deeper into emotion, motivation and rationale, until love touches not eternity but death, transforming 'The Antelope Wife' into a story of longing and of longing assuaged, as sustaining as 'Love Medicine', serious, sometimes flawed, but altogether passionate."
Curwen
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