Jacklight

Erdrich, Louise

ISBN 10: 0030686822 / ISBN 13: 9780030686825

Published by Holt Rinehart Winston, 1984

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New York. 1984. February 1984. Holt Rinehart Winston. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0030686822. 85 pages. paperback. Cover design & illustration by David Gatti. keywords: American Literature Poetry Women Native American Chippewa Anishinaabe. DESCRIPTION - The poems of Louise Erdrich eloquently and passionately bring to life what it is to be a woman, a Midwesterner, and a Native American. She presents that region and those people without sentimentality but with a powerful magic. Although she often draws from a deep, enchanted well, she does not ignore the ordinary: a lady who drives a pink Mustang, a hooker who works the carnival circuit. One series of poems presents a small town in the early part of this century and Mary Kroger, the butcher's widow. Mary lives within the shadows of her memories, the pulse of her desires, and the pragmatic surface of her commonplace days in the center of a town awash with gossip, commerce, and lust. Other poems draw from images so ripe they become myth, signs and directions the visible world offers up in its great repetitions. Louise Erdrich writes with conviction and vision; her work speaks with a clarity and strength we cannot ignore. LOUISE ERDRICH was born in 1954 and grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota. She is of German and Chippewa descent, and belongs to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Redbook, and North American Review. inventory #11520. Seller Inventory # z11520

Bibliographic Details

Title: Jacklight

Publisher: Holt Rinehart Winston

Publication Date: 1984

Binding: paperback

Condition: Very Good in Wrappers

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

Bound in the publisher's original illustrated wraps. Lightly rubbed at the edges and extremities. Signed by the author on half-title page.

About the Author:

Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of American novelists. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. She is the author of many novels, the first of which, "Love Medicine", won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the last of which, "The Round House", won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012. She lives in Minnesota.