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Book Details · Subject Headgings · Plot Summary · Table of Contents · Blurbs
The 1984 Holt, Reinhart and Winston hardcover edition (ISBN 0030706114) was designed by Amy Hill; jacket design by Honi Werner. View this edition's record in Google Books.
Henry Holt & Co. also published a 1984 edition (ISBN 080501716X). View this edition's record in Google Books.
Bantam Books published a 1987 edition (ISBN 0553268082). View this edition's record in Google Books.
Bantam Books published also published a 1989 edition (ISBN 0553344234). View this edition's record in Google Books.
The 1989 paperback edition (ISBN 0553344234) contains cover art by Glen Harrington. View this edition's record in Google Books
In 1993 Erdrich revised and added to Love Medicine. See Love Medicine: New and Expanded Edition.
Indians of North America -- North Dakota -- Fiction
"Vibrant with mystery, music, and magic, this moving saga of two Native American families--the Kashpaws and the Lamartines--reaches out from the printed page with an authenticity and emotion rarely matched in contemporary fiction. From the powerful opening scene--high-spirited, hard-drinking June Kashpaw's death in the snow of a North Dakota reservation--Louise Erdrich's award-winning story springs to raging life: a multigenerational portrait of new truths and secrets whose time has come, of those who left the Indian land and those who stayed behind, of strong men and women caught in an unforgettable drama of anger, desire, and the healing power called Love Medicine."
The World's Greatest Fisherman (1981)
Saint Marie (1934)
Wild Geese (1934)
The Beads (1948)
Lulu's Boys (1957)
The Plunge of the Brave (1957)
Flesh and Blood (1957)
A Bridge (1973)
The Red Convertible (1974)
Scales (1980)
Crown of Thorns (1981)
Love Medicine (1982)
The Good Tears (1983)
Crossing the Water (1984)
Back-Cover Blurbs:
"This greatly gifted 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 a pitiless and wild wit--in all, a terrific debut."
--Philip Roth
"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
"I am stunned by the power of Love Medicine, a book committed to certain true principles, and a book of masterful expression."
--Kay Boyle
"A remarkable first novel, quick with agile prose, taut speech, poetry, and power, conveying unflichingly 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
"The beauty of Love Medicine saves us from being completely devastated by its power."
--Toni Morrison
Inside-Cover Blurbs:
"A dazzling series of family portraits ...This novel is simply about the power of love."
Chicago Tribune
"A wonderfully fresh and accomplished writer."
Newsday
"Love Medicine is a first novel of extraordinary promise and real achievement....Louise Erdrich writes with sureness and grace."
Saturday Review
"Lyrical and funny, mystical and down-to-earth, Love Medicine entrances."
Christian Science Monitor
"Miss Erdrich [presents] a variety of voices: each forceful in its own way, each adding a different dimension--cruel, somber, humorous--to what is cumulatively 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."
The New York Times Book Review
"A great Native American novel."
Life magazine
"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
"Love Medicine, as no book before it has done, depicts the Native American experience as it truly is, full of humor, strength, beauty, and survival."
Susan Shown Harjo, Executive Director, Congress of American Indians
"Like some of the other spectactular debut works of the last few years--Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Joan Chase's During the Regin of the Queen of Persia--there is nothing apprentice, nothing 'promising' about Love Medicine. It is a book that satisfies the expectations it creates, and then some."
San Francisco Chronicle
Back-Cover Blurbs:
"The most interesting new American novelist to have appeared in years."
--Philip Roth
"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."
The New York Times Book Review
"A great Native American novel."
Life magazine
"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 powerful piece of work...Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer; as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted."
--Anne Tyler
"The beauty of Love Medicine saves us from being completely devastated by its power."
--Toni Morrison
"Love Medicine is the work of a tough, loving mind.."
--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
"Love Medicine is a first novel of extraordinary promise and real achievement...Louise Erdrich writes with sureness and grace."
--Saturday Review
"Lyrical and funny, mystical and down-to-earth, Love Medicine entrances."
--Christian Science Monitor
Modified: August 13, 2008,
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