The Master Butchers Singing Club - Brossura

Erdrich, Louise

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ISBN 10: 0060533277 ISBN 13: 9780060533274

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2003

Riassunto

Returning to his quiet German village home after World War I, trained killer Fidelis Waldvogel, accompanied by his new wife, starts a new life in America and finds his life irrevocably changed by a new relationship. (Historical Fiction)

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Recensione:

“A substantial, beautifully composed, confident work of art ... both expansive in its reach and intimate in its intense focus.” (O magazine)

“An enrapturing plunge into the depths of the human heart.” (Washington Post Book World)

“[A] magnificent tale...poignant in the mysteries it evokes and patient with the questions it leaves unanswered.” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

“Miraculous ...[Erdrich is] at the peak of powers as a writer ... Her work is as melodious as ever.” (Boston Globe)

“Emotionally resonant.” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)

“[A] masterpiece... Erdrich never hits a false note.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

“Louise Erdrich’s rousing and radiant new novel THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB is all kinds of lovely.” (Newsweek)

“Each moment and its particulars dazzles ... Fidelis and firm-bellied Delphine and the rest [of the characters] are masterworks.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

“THE MASTER BUTCHERS SINGING CLUB can surely be cast as the most wrenching and wise of Erdrich’s nine novels.” (Miami Herald)

“A brilliantly layered look at war’s costs ...Daring, graceful, comprehending and, rooted in the great plains, uniquely American.” (Kansas City Star)

L'autore:

Louise Erdrich is the author of fifteen novels as well as volumes of poetry, children’s books, short stories, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel The Round House won the National Book Award for Fiction. The Plague of Doves won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her debut novel, Love Medicine, was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Erdrich has received the Library of Congress Prize in American Fiction, the prestigious PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She lives in Minnesota with her daughters and is the owner of Birchbark Books, a small independent bookstore.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060533277
• ISBN 13: 9780060533274
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 512