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The 1986 "Complimentary Reading Copy" or "UNCORRECTED READING COPY" was issued in paperback format (ISBN-10: 0030706122; ISBN-13: 9780030706127). Designed by Susan Hood. Backcover photo of Erdrich by Jerry Bauer.
First commerical edition published by Holt in September 1986.
The 1986 Holt cloth with dustjacket (ISBN-10: 0805000585; ISBN-13: 9780805000580) edition was designed by Susan Hood; cover illustration by Leslie Evans. Jacket design by Wendell Minor. Inside backcover jacket photo of Erdrich by Jerry Bauer.
A Bantam Books mass market paper (ISBN-10: 0553268074; ISBN-13: 9780553268072) edition and a G.K. Hall cloth (ISBN-10: 0816143005; ISBN-13: 9780816143009) were also issued in 1987.
A Bantam Books paperback (ISBN-10: 0553347233; ISBN-13: 9780553347234) edition was published in 1989. Inside backcover photo by Michael Dorris.
A HarperFlamingo (ISBN-10: 0060977507; ISBN-13: 9780060977504) edition was published in 1998.
A Perennial paper (ISBN-10: 0060977507; ISBN-13: 9780060977504) edition was published in 2001.
A HarperPerennial paperback edition (ISBN-10: 0060835273; ISBN-13: 9780060835279) was published in 2006.
Orphans -- Fiction
The Branch
Part One
CHAPTER ONE 1932
MARY ADARE
Karl's Night
CHAPTER TWO 1932
SITA KOZKA
MARY ADARE
CELESTINE JAMES
Rescue
CHAPTER THREE 1932
KARL ADARE
Aerial View of Argus
Part Two
CHAPTER FOUR 1941
MARY ADARE
The Orphans' Picnic
CHAPTER FIVE 1950
SITA KOZKA
Sita's Wedding
CHAPTER SIX 1952
KARL ADARE
Wallace's Night
CHAPTER SEVEN 1953
CELESTINE JAMES
Mary's Night
CHAPTER EIGHT 1953
SITZ KOZKA
Russell's Night
CHAPTER NINE 1954
WALLACE PFEF
Celestine's Night
Part Three
CHAPTER TEN 1960
MARY ADARE
Sita's Night
CHAPTER ELEVEN 1964
CELESTINE JAMES
The Birdorama
CHAPTER TWELVE 1964
WALLACE PFEF
The Ox Motel
Part Four
CHAPTER THIRTEEN 1972
CELESTINE JAMES
SITA TAPPE
MARY ADARE
Most-Decorated Hero
CHAPTER FOURTEEN 1971
WALLACE PFEF
The Passenger
CHAPTER FIFTEEN 1972
KARL ADARE
The Grandstand
CHAPTER SIXTEEN 1972
DOT
1986 uncorrected proof edition (inside):
"With this impressive debut Louise Erdrich enters the company of America's better novelists.
New York Times Book Review
"This greatly gifed first novelist seems to have come by her enormous folk wisdom instinctively, like Huckleberry Finn. She depicts the hardness of these lives with originality, authority, tenderness, and pitiless and wild wit--in all, a terrific debut."
Philip Roth
"Without once striking a false note . . . Love Medicine is the work of a tough, loving mind."
Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
"Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer, as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted, and Love Medicine is a powerful piece of work."
Anne Tyler
"Dazzling"
Chicago Tribune
"I am stunned by the power of Love Medicine, a book committed to certain true principles, and a book of masterful expression."
Kay Boyle
"The beauty of Love Medicine saves us from being devastated by its power."
Toni Morrison
"A remarkable first novel, quick with agile prose, taut speech, poetry, and power, conveying unflinchingly the funkiness, humor, and great unspoken sadness of the Indian reservations, and a people exiled to a no-man's-land between two worlds."
Peter Matthiessen
"Louise Erdrich's wit and bitterness combine to give her beautifully observed characters real bit. 'Love Medicine,' she says through one of those characters, is 'true feeling, not no magic.' True feeling's what her book abounds in--out of the dozens of new novels of the season, this one's a stand-out."
Rosellen Brown
"A wonderfully fresh and accomplished writer"
Newsday
"Terrific"
Houston Post
"There are at least a dozen of the many vividly drawn people in this first novel who will not leave the mind once they are let in. Their power comes from Louise Erdrich's mastery of words."
D.J.R. Bruckner, New York Times
1989 paperback edition:
"A perfect-and perfectly wonderful-novel."
Anne Tyler
"A book of power and precision... [Louise Erdrich's] two books together provoke in me amazement and gratitude at this splendid, feisty talent."
Robert Bly, New York Times Book Review
"A remarkable and luminous novel."
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Captivating."
The Washington Post Book World
"Writeen with extraordinary power, compassion and insight into the human heart ... Erdrich has vaulted into the front ranks of American literature."
Dan Cryer, Newsday
"The dialogue is brilliant from start to finish. And Mary, Karl, Celestine, Sita, and Dot are all original and powerful characters who, like their relatives in Love Medicine, left me exhilarated, somewhat drained, and very grateful to this immensely gifted novelist for The Beet Queen."
Chicago Sun-Times
"She is a luminous writer and has produced a novel rich in movement, beauty, event. Her prose spins and sparkles, and dances right on the heart when it needs to."
Los Angeles Times
1989 British paperback edition: Front cover
"Freshness of vision like an electric shock."
Angela Carter
1989 British paperback edition: Back cover
"Violent, passionate, surprising...small towns, the prairies, people trashed by circumstance, sexual obsession - all the matter of the classic American novel. The Beet Queen imparts its freshness of vision like an electric shock."
Angela Carter, Guardian
"Erdrich is among our most powerful writers...she can weave a web as fine as any spider's but hers is made of steel"
Martin Cruz Smith
"She is a writer of formidable strength and imagination, and she presents the fruits of both in a prose of cold, flexible, haunting beauty"
Bernard Levin, Sunday Times
"I do not know anyone else writing about the things Louise Erdrich does. She's an original"
Gail Godwin
"The most interesting new American novelist to have appeared in years"
Philip Roth
"The range of her sympathy is astonishing...She shares with Faulkner the gift of transcending the mundane"
Paul Bailey, Observer
Modified: December 16, 2010,
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