Four Souls: A Novel - Rilegato

Erdrich, Louise

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ISBN 10: 0066209757 ISBN 13: 9780066209753

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2004

Riassunto

A stunning new novel from one of America’s premiere novelists, a book that brings back the characters from her beloved New York Times best seller Tracks. Four Souls opens with Fleur’s journey east, during which she has a dream vision that gives her a powerful new name. Arriving in Minneapolis, she is hired as a laundress in the home of John James Mauser. A man notorious for his wealth and his mansion on a hill, Mauser became rich by deceiving young Indian women and taking possession of their ancestral lands

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Recensione:

“Powerful and haunting.” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)

“Stunning flights of lyricism.” (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review)

“Vividly evoked ...A welcome addition, then, to a uniquely enthralling and important American story.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Fleur’s story, along with comic subplots involving the narrators, is marked by imagery both poetic and moving.” (Library Journal)

“Great originality and charm.” (Entertainment Weekly)

“FOUR SOULS juxtaposes ... the ribald and the elegiac.” (Atlantic Monthly)

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: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0066209757
• ISBN 13: 9780066209753
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224