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“Writing in prose
that combines the magical sleight of hand of Gabriel García Márquez with the
earthy, American rhythms of Faulkner…[Erdrich] has written what is arguably her
most ambitious—and in many ways, her most deeply affecting—work yet.”
— New York Times
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“[Erdrich’s]
accomplishment in these pages is Tolstoy-like: to render human particularity so
meticulously and with such fierce passion as to convey the great, glittering
movement of time.”
— San Francisco Chronicle
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“An intricate tale of
heartbreak and humor…[A] wondrous novel…What marks these stories…is what has
always set Erdrich apart and made her work seem miraculous: the jostling of
pathos and comedy…Sit down and listen carefully.”
— Washington Post Book World
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“Wholly felt and
exquisitely rendered tales of memory and magic…An intricate tapestry that
deeply satisfies the mind, the heart, and the spirit.”
— O, The Oprah Magazine
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“The stories told by
[Erdrich’s] characters offer pleasures of language, of humor, of sheer
narrative momentum, that shine even in the darkest moments of the book.”
— Boston Globe
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“The great web that
connects Erdrich’s vivid characters is so subtly drawn and so surprising in its
configuration, the novel, like every good story, yields new insights and
surprises with each immersion.”
— Chicago Tribune
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“Erdrich moves
seamlessly from grief to sexual ecstasy, from comedy…to tragedy, and from
richly layered observations of nature to human nature to magical realism. She
is less storyteller than medium. One has the sense that voices and events pour
into her and reemerge with crackling intensity, as keen music trembling between
sorrow and joy.”
— Los Angeles Times
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“Erdrich’s latest
novel…is so natural you forget there’s a writer behind it…Instantly gripping.”
— Marie Claire
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“One can only marvel…at
Erdrich’s amazing ability to do what so few of us can—shape words into phrases
and sentences of incomparable beauty that, then, pour forth a mesmerizing
story.”
— USA Today
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“At once mythic and
down-to-earth…Beautiful, funny, moving, and unexpected.”
— Elle
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“Erdrich deftly
weaves past and present, and her literary territory is as intricate as
Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County.”
— More
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“Erdrich has
demonstrated a rare ability to create vibrant, wholly original characters and
to describe nature in a prose so lyrical it becomes poetry. The Plague of Doves is proof that she
has yet to exhaust her powerful magic.”
— Hartford Courant
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“To read Louise
Erdrich’s thunderous new novel is to leap headlong into the fiery imagination
of a master storyteller…A rich, colorful mosaic of tales that twist and turn
for decades.”
— Miami Herald
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“A multigenerational
tour de force of sin, redemption, murder and vengeance.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“The magic lies in
the details of Erdrich’s ever-replenishing mythology, whether of a lost stamp collection
or a boy’s salvation. A lush, multilayered book.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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“Mesmerizing…With
both impeccable comic timing and a powerful sense of the tragic, Erdrich
continues to illuminate, in highly original style, ‘the river of our
existence.’”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“Louise Erdrich’s
imaginative freedom has reached its zenith—The
Plague of Doves is her dazzling masterpiece.”
— Philip Roth, Pulitzer Prize–winning author