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The antelope wife : a novel / Louise Erdrich.

Author/creator Erdrich, Louise
Format Book and Print
EditionNew and rev. ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Harper Perennial, ©2012.
Description276, 32 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : genealogical table ; 21 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Bezhig: Father's milk ; Windigoo story ; Answers ; The blitzkuchen -- Niizh: Windigoo dog ; The antelope woman ; The Ojibwe week ; Why I am no longer friends with Whiteheart Beads ; The deer husband ; The gravitron ; Yellow pickup truck ; The Ojibwe holidays ; Rozin ; Almost soup ; Lazy stitch -- Niswi: The first mix-up ; Nibi ;Finding sweetheart -- Niiwin: Windigoo dog ; The surpoise party ; Northwest trader blue ; Windigoo dog.
Abstract In an attack on an Indian village, a U.S. cavalryman takes a baby girl, but later gives her back. So begins a multi-generation saga on the girl's descendants as they navigate between modern life and ancient tradition. By the author of The Bingo Palace.
Abstract "A new and radically revised version of the classic novel ... When Klaus Shawano abducts Sweetheart Calico and carries her far from her native Montana plains to his Minneapolis home, he cannot begin to imagine what the eventual consequences of his rash act will be. Shawano's mysterious Antelope Woman has stolen his heart --and soon proves to be a bewitching agent of chaos whose effect on others is disturbing and irresistible, as she alters the shape of things around her and the shape of things to come"--Back cover.
General note"P.S.-- insights, interviews & more ..."--32 p. at end.
General note"First edition"--T.p. verso.
Genre/formLove stories.
ISBN9780061767968 (pbk.)
ISBN0061767964 (pbk.)

Available Items

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Joyner General Stacks PS3555 .R42 A8 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold