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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0060176059
ISBN-13: 9780060176051
Apr 1996
Publisher: Harpercollins
452 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Stranded in a North Dakota blizzard, Jack Mauser's five former wives huddle for warmth and pass the endless night by remembering the stories of how each came to love, marry, and, ultimately, move beyond Jack. At times painful, at times heartbreaking, and oftentimes comic, their tales become the adhesive that holds them together--in their love for Jack and in their lives as women.
| Size | | Length: | 452 pages | | Height: | 10.0 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.8 in | | Weight: | 28.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Gleefully, Erdrich sets out to explore a wide spectrum of gaudy emotional states....[She] exploits the savory possibilities of the situation to the full....Erdrich revels in all of this--the physical disorder, emotional chaos, the succulent awfulness of the characters."
Washington Post Book World - Roxana Robinson (04/21/1996)
"Romantic love, religious ecstasy, the strange mixture of devotion and misunderstanding that runs through families--all are steeped together. The result is a rich and fragrant infusion....Miracles and possibilities come together here to produce a kind of earthly magic that is more potent than magic realism....Ms. Erdrich's saints are nearly as lively as her sinners, and that's a real achievement."
New York Times Book Review - Mark Childress (05/12/1996)
"[A] comic, expansive book....[T]his is a deeply, almost reverently sexual novel. It is completion, absolution, forgetfulness and memory all at once. TALES OF BURNING LOVE, like all of Erdrich's novels, is a book about recovering from the belief that you can stand alone."
Klinkenborg
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