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Title: The Master Butchers Singing Club : A Novel by Louise Erdrich ISBN: 0-06-093533-2 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.21 (38 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is life
Comment: This complex tale is about a master butcher, his singing club, and about a million other things (true love, war, circus performers, mysterious deaths, friendship ...). It doesn't idealize life but rather shows the simple beauty and suffering in everyday life.
At times, it's hard to tell who the story is about, exactly, because it's about so many people (but not so many as to get confusing). Just when you think, "aha! this is all about Fidelis," the story switches over to Step-and-a-Half or some other character who seemed minor previously. I sometimes wished the story focused on fewer characters, but in the end, I realized that this is life -- everyone has their own story -- and I appreciated the richness of each character's contribution.
I highly recommend this book. Somehow, this story of a time long ago when life was simpler and harder, brought me peace and a longing to slow down and enjoy life more.
About the CDs (I "read" this book on CD): at first, I didn't care for Erdrich's reading style -- airy, slow, and sometimes accentuating the wrong words. But the more I listened, the more I became completely hooked and couldn't wait to listen more. Erdrich's reading enriched the drama beautifully.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Brilliant Novel with Unforgettable Characters
Comment: It's a complete cliche to say that a book sticks with you long after you've turned the last page, but that is precisely the impact that the The Master Butchers Singing Club has had upon me. Delphine and Fidelis (the singing butcher of the title) are two of the most idiosyncratic and memorable characters I've ever encountered in fiction. Louise Erdrich depicts the entire spectrum of emotion in two essentially stoic people and simply breaks your heart.
In the hard scrabble life desribed in this novel, a man shoots a pack of wild dogs to show his love for his sons and grief for his dead wife. The town drunk shows a lethal pettiness and then pulls himself together to sing songs of comfort to a dying woman. It is the moral complexity of these people that sticks with you for days. Some reviewers have complained that characters come into the novel and then disappear, but that is part of the novel's point. The book is the story of Delphine's life. Just as in any life, people come into her world and then move on. Her life feels more real, and less like fiction, because some loose ends are left to dangle. Not every character has an ultimate resolution.
I can't recommend this book highly enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Rich Tale
Comment: I was absorbed with this story from page one. It is a wonderful tapestry of characters whose stories weave in and out with humor, tragedy and suspense. Erdrich is a marvelous story teller
and makes every action rich and appealing. I poured through this story with such satisfaction that I will read other books by this author.
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Title: The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel by Louise Erdrich ISBN: 0060931221 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Antelope Wife : A Novel by Louise Erdrich ISBN: 0060930071 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Beet Queen : A Novel by Louise Erdrich ISBN: 0060977507 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Middlesex : A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides ISBN: 0312422156 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country (National Geographic Directions) by Louise Erdrich ISBN: 0792257197 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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