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Tales of Burning Love

Tales of Burning Love

by Louise Erdrich
Paperback
Publication Date: 03/02/1997

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An epic study in the varieties of love from one of America's greatest story-weavers, and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2012.


'Falling back in love with your first wife while married to your fifth was a sticky, stupid business.'


Jack Mause simply feels too much. A builder sparring with bankruptcy, he finds that the women in his life accuse him of being emotionally barren, too. Yet this is a man who makes love in a convent, frightens a nun right to death and lets the pretty young stranger he has just married walk off alone into a blizzard. Jack has a very rich history. And he has a secret: his marriages crack on what he conceals.


His women swirl about in his wake, disoriented, stormy and changed. They are becalmed by the realization that they each married a different Jack Mauser, contrived a different history. Marooned, frozen, in a snow-bound car, and in order to survive, Jack's wifes find themselves telling each other a last of the secret history each shares with him - stories that revive, warming tales of burning love.
ISBN:
9780006547914
9780006547914
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-02-1997
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
464
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x32mm
Weight:
0.34kg
Louise Erdrich

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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