The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse - Brossura

Erdrich, Louise

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060931221 ISBN 13: 9780060931223

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2002

Riassunto

As priest Father Damien Modeste nears the end of his life and his work with the Ojibwe on a remote reservation, he is asked to help prove or disprove the sainthood of a woman he knows well and struggles to guard his own secret identity--a woman who has lived as a man--in the process. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Funny, engrossing and revelatory.” (Wall Street Journal)

“Stunning ...a moving meditation ... infused with mystery and wonder.” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

“Nothing less than dazzling.” (USA Today)

“A deeply affecting narrative . . . by turns comical and elegiac, farcical, and tragic.” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)

“Spellbinding...profoundly moving.” (Elle)

"You will be dazzled by the poetry of her language and her lighteninglike illuminations of the human condition." (Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine)

"A magnificent storyteller ... delivering musical prose charged by powerful metaphors." (St. Paul Star-Tribune)

"Bold and imaginative." (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

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: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060931221
• ISBN 13: 9780060931223
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 361