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Title: Tracks RI by Louise Erdrich ISBN: 0-06-097245-9 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (24 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: New Perspective
Comment: A general look at American history between 1910 and 1920 will mostly focus on America's involvement in World War I. In Erdrich's work that is placed in this time period, the focus is on another American event: the displacement of Indians from their land. The tale is carefully crafted and the magical realism allows the reader to feel like a part of the story - like he or she is taking part in it. If you want a quick read, or a really thoughtful read, this book provides both.
Rating: 5
Summary: TRACKS is a page-turner. Hard to put down!
Comment: After reading several different Native American authors, I finally had the privilege of reading Louise Erdrich. TRACKS captured my imagination as I listened to Nanapush and Pauline tell their stories. Erdrich brilliantly has the two narrators cast doubt upon each other's tales- a tactic which makes the book all the more enthralling to read. Pauline's zealous quest for sainthood, filled with sacrifices that border on ridiculousness, contrasts with Fleur's relationship to nature, embodied in the forest and the lake creature, Misshepeshu. Erdrich's characters endear themselves to the readers with their first-person revelations, their bawdy senses of humor, and their uncanny strength. The sexual banter between Margaret and Nanapush brings the characters to thriving, realistic life. TRACKS presents these characters against the backdrop of a dwindling forest, which government agents consume piece by piece, selling to American logging companies. As Fleur and Nanapush's homeland disappears, their struggle to control their own future becomes present and touching. Each of the characters reaches out in a different way to attempt to determine their future in some way. TRACKS deserves several reads, and Louise Erdrichs deserves high praise for an incredible and entertaining work.
Rating: 4
Summary: Wonderful
Comment: I first read this book for a high school multi cultural lit class. I was fascinated by the story then and almost 10 years later this is still one great read (at least to me). It take a little brain power to get through, this is not an easily read novel, but if you enjoy challenging reads that focus on the non-white perspective of America (like Push, or The Bluest Eye) then you will appreciate Tracks
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Title: Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich ISBN: 0060975547 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich ISBN: 0060977507 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich ISBN: 006092585X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich ISBN: 0060930071 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Ceremony (Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Leslie Marmon Silko ISBN: 0140086838 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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