The Painted Drum

(NY, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005)

The 2005 hardcover edition (ISBN 0060515104) was published by Harper Colllins.

Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich.

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Book Details: The Painted Drum

HarperCollins: hardcover

Subject Headings Assigned: The Painted Drum

Indians of North America -- Fiction
Indian reservations -- Fiction
Villages -- Fiction
New England -- Fiction

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Summary: The Painted Drum

"Discovering a cache of valuable Native American artifacts while appraising an estate in New Hampshire, Faye Travers investigates the history of a ceremonial drum, which possesses spiritual powers and changes the lives of people who encounter it."

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Table of Contents: The Painted Drum

Part One: Revival Road
1. Revival Road
2. The Painted Drum
3. The Orchard
4. Jewelweed

Part Two: North of Hoopdance
1. The Visitors
2. The Shawl
3. The Wolves
4. The Little Girl Drum
5. The Ornamental Man

Part Three: The Little Girl Drum
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Part Four: Revival Road
Last Chapter / The Chain
Author's Note

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Backcover Blurbs: The Painted Drum

"Louise Erdrich is the rarest kind of writer, as compassionate as she is sharp-sighted."
--Anne Tyler

"Erdrich, like many of her characters, is a true storyteller. . . . She is a writer of splendid complications and digressions. She is also a writer of stunning prose."
--Marogt Livesey, Boston Globe

"Louise Erdrich captrues the passionate fears, myths, and doom of a living people, and she does so with an ease that leaves the reader breatheless."
--New Yorker

"Erdrich writes with a warrior's heart and a poet's voice."
--Chicago Tribune

"It is no small feat to create a whole world, people it believably, and then record the histories of those people (one thinks of Faulkner and Garcia Marquez), but Louise Erdrich is more than equal to the task."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"In the fictio of Louise Erdrich, life always trumps suffering. As rife as her novels are with undercurrents of grief and loss and displacement, she delights more in the irreverent, the improbably and even the stylistically beautiful."
--Los Angles Times Book Review

"Erdrich masterfully evokes the clash between Native American psychology and modern values. . . . She sustains a literary voice like no other, familiar and so foreign at the same time."
--People

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Modified: October 09, 2008,