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Book Details · Subject Headings · Table of Contents · Blurbs
The 1994 hardcover edition (ISBN 0060170808) was designed by C. Linda Dingler. Jacket design by Doreen Louie and jacket ilustration by Greg Harlin/Wood Ronsaville Harlin, Inc. Inside back jacket photo of Erdrich by Michael Dorris.
The 1994 paperback edition (ISBN 006092585x) was designed by C. Linda Dingler, features Doreen Louie's cover design and Greg Harlin's cover illustration. Back cover photograph of Erdrich by Michael Dorris.
Indians of North America -- Fiction
Bingo -- Fiction
Chapter One
The Message
Chapter Two
Lipsha Morrisey
Chapter Three
Solitary
Chapter Four
Lipsha's Luck
Chapter Five
Transportation
Chapter Six
June's Luck
Chapter Seven
The Bingo Van
Chapter Eight
Lyman's Luck
Chapter Nine
Insulation
Chapter Ten
Shawnee's Luck
Chapter Eleven
Mindemoya
Chapter Twelve
Fleur's Luck
Chapter Thirteen
Lyman's Dream
Chapter Fourteen
Religious Wars
Chapter Fifteen
Redford's Luck
Chapter Sixteen
Shawnee Dancing
Chapter Seventeen
Getting Nowhere Fast
Chapter Eighteen
Lyman Dancing
Chapter Nineteen
Albertine's Luck
Chapter Twenty
A Little Vision
Chapter Twenty-one
Gerry's Luck
Chapter Twenty-two
Escape
Chapter Twenty-three
Zelda's Luck
Chapter Twenty-four
I'm a Mad Dog Biting Myself for Sympathy
Chapter Twenty-five
Lulu's Capture
Chapter Twenty-six
Shawnee's Morning
Chapter Twenty-seven
Pillager Bones
"A writer of truly extraordinary gifts--imaginative power, acute sensitivity, and an unpretentious stylistic grace."
San Francisco Chronicle
"Miss Erdrich [presents] a variety of voices: each forceful in its own way, each adding a different dimension--cruel, somber, humorous--to what is cumulously a wondrous prose song...Love Medicine is finally about the enduring verities of loving and surviving, and these truths are revealed in a narrative that is an invigorating mixture of the cosmic and the tragic."
New York Times Book Review
"Love Medicine is a remarkable first novel that stares more boldly at many of the truths of Native American life in this country than any fiction I've read....It is a deeply if ironically spiritual novel."
Chicago Sun-Times
"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
"She is a luminous writerand 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
"One must reach for names like Balzac and Faulkner to suggest the scope of her three interlocking novels.... [Louise Erdrich] is like one of those rumored drugs that are instantly and forever addictive."
Chicago Tribune
"Ms. Erdrich's novels, regional in the best sense, are 'about' the experience of Native Americans the way Toni Morrison's are about black people, William Faulkner's and Eudora Welty's about the South, Philip Roth's and Bernard Malamud's about the Jews. The specificity implies nothing provincial or small.... Ms. Erdrich artfully sifts the miraculous through the mundane."
New York Times Book Review
"Wonderful....Hopeful, wrenching, funny, sexy, intense and penetratingly true, The Bingo Palace is a book that wakes us up if we've been sleeping, that rekindles our desires, that makes us believe in all the power within us that we can reckon nor define."
Pam Houston, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Grounded in harsh reality, Erdrich's prose attains a full-throated mystery and magic akin to that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Toni Morrison....Erdrich's brilliance lies in transforming the American Indian fascination with games of chance into a compelling metaphor for the intricacies of fortune.
"In The Bingo Palace, Louise Erdrich has taken a chance of her own and scored big. It's another triumph for one of our best writers of fiction."
New York Newsday
"The Bingo Palace is a msaterpiece....Writing in prose both dense and colloquial, with characters and subject matter that continue to be engrossing, Erdrich has again created a world that is at once familiar, foreign and magical."
Glamour
"Louise Erdrich's books all have stoice wisdom, an unwillingness to judge, a commitment to objective observation that records each emotional event entirely, without every sacrificing complexity of meaning. The Bingo Palace is full of that wisdom."
Los Angles Times Book Review
"The Bingo Palace is the story of two men in love with the same woman, surely the oldest plot around, but one that Louise Erdrich reinvents with delicacy humor and boldness...so vivid are the images and carefully constructed scences, that both place and passion become immediate and memorable."
New York Daily News
"In the hands of the sort of accomplished novelist that Erdrich has become, we can know a place as even its own residents only dimly do. In these novels of Erdrich's we come to see not only the history and myths that form the narrative a community tells about itself, but the patterning in the generations of a family and...insights into the most private matters of the individual heart and psyche."
USA Today
"Erdrich's rich, pleasurable mix of family histories, tribal gambling and humanist vision is homebred magic realism played by an expert."
Elle
"All the thought and generosity that have been invested in this book make the final intractability of the contemporary events and sensibilities evoked in it only more impressive."
Boston Globe
"[An] incandescent new novel of contemporary Native American life....With lyrical language and stratling imagery, Erdrich moves gracefully between the ordinary and the mystical, the ancient and the modern."
Lear's
"Erdrich leaves us the curious burden of her uniquely beautiful prose, she also gives us gems to treasure....Yes, we're back in Erdrich country--a mystical landscape rich in insight, character, and wit."
Ms. magazine
"The novel's plot is compelling...its poetic prose style, rich in American Indian mythology and nature imagery...shines."
Minneapolis Star Tribune
"The writing is passionate, often beautiful, whole scenes remain firmly etched in memory, and a telling impression remains of the hopes and despairs of contemporary Native Americans."
Publishers Weekly
"Erdrich's imagination is sacred and sacrilegious at once; the deepest feeling and wisdom leap out like fireworks from the most hilarious, or blasphemous, scenes....Erdrich is a masterful storyteller."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"Beautiful....Shows us a place where love, fate and chance are woven together like a braid, a world where daily life is enriched by a powerful spiritual presence."
New York Times Book Review
"Magnificient...vitally alive and endearing. Few American authors write with more lyrical tenderness and magical power."
Wall Street Journal
"Her poetic style graces the darkest moment, bringing a strange beauty to the most passionate and decisive scenes....In Erdrich's bittersweet world, humor often undercuts the most serious moment, and by knowing when to laugh, her characters are able to survive."
People
Modified: August 13, 2008,
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