Four Souls Contributor(s): Erdrich, Louise (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060935227 ISBN-13: 9780060935221 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 Annotation: In the world of interconnected novels, this story is closely linked to "Tracks." The tale elaborates the intricate story of life on a reservation peopled by saints and false saints, heroes and sinners, clever fools and tenacious women. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Native American & Aboriginal - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 4.9" W x 7.9" (0.45 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 79890 Reading Level: 6.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 10.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novel Tracks. After taking her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange and compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her tribe's land. But revenge is never simple, and her intentions are complicated by her dangerous compassion for the man who wronged her.
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Contributor Bio(s): Erdrich, Louise: - 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. |