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The Master Butchers Singing Club
Louise Erdrich
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Description for The Master Butchers Singing Club
Paperback. A powerful novel from one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation, and the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2012 Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 105 x 24. Weight in Grams: 314.
A powerful novel from one of the most celebrated American writers of her generation, and the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2012
In the quiet aftermath of WWI, Fidelis Waldvogel leaves behind his quiet German village, and sets out for America with his new wife Eva – the widow of his best friend, killed in action.
Finally settling in North Dakota, Fidelis works hard to build a business, a home for his family – and a singing ... Read more
Spanning the decades from the Great War to the fifties, 'The Master Butchers Singing Club' is a gift to readers everywhere, unfolding its themes of love and death, lightness and gravity with the eloquent prose, sly humour, and depth of feeling that only a masterful writer can offer.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007136384
SKU
V9780007136384
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Ref
99-80
About Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of American novelists. Born in 1954 in Minnesota, she grew up mostly in North Dakota, where her parents taught at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. She is the author of ... Read more
Reviews for The Master Butchers Singing Club
'This novel is the work of a poet. The many voices are distinct, rhythmical and poignant … ‘The Master Butchers Singing Club’ is the kind of story that goes a long way toward explaining the American Dream, its disasters and its triumphs. Louise Erdrich, with the combined blood of the Cree Indians and a man who fought for Germany, gives ... Read more