Book Details
⚡️Book Title : Tales of Burning Love
⚡Book Author : Louise Erdrich
⚡Page : 464 pages
⚡Published March 14th 1997 by Harper Perennial (first published 1996)
Tales of Burning Love - In her boldest and most darkly humorous novel yet, award-winning, critically acclaimed and bestselling novelist Louise Erdrich tells the intimate and powerful stories of five Great Plains women whose lives are connected through one man. Stranded in a North Dakota blizzard, Jack Mauser's 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 often times comic, their tales become the adhesive that holds them together in their love for Jack and in their lives as women. Erdrich, with her characteristic powers of observation and luminescent prose, brings these women's unforgettable stories to life with astonishing candor and warmth. Filled with keen perceptions about the apparatus for survival, the force of passion and the necessity of hope, "Tales of Burning Love" is a tour de force from one of the most formidable American writers at work today."Her most daring and perhaps her most compelling....A wise, wonderful, and wickedly funny novel." "--Booklist"
Tales of Burning Love
In her boldest and most darkly humorous novel yet, award-winning, critically acclaimed and bestselling novelist Louise Erdrich tells the intimate and powerful stories of five Great Plains women whose lives are connected through one man. Stranded in a North Dakota blizzard, Jack Mauser's 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 often times comic, their tales become the adhesive that holds them together in their love for Jack and in their lives as women. Erdrich, with her characteristic powers of observation and luminescent prose, brings these women's unforgettable stories to life with astonishing candor and warmth. Filled with keen perceptions about the apparatus for survival, the force of passion and the necessity of hope, "Tales of Burning Love" is a tour de force from one of the most formidable American writers at work today."Her most daring and perhaps her most compelling....A wise, wonderful, and wickedly funny novel." "--Booklist"
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