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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country Tight - 2003

by Louise Erdrich

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  • Hardcover
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A barely read book with tight binding, deckle edge. The cover has minor edgewear due to storage. One owner (me). In Books & Islands in Ojibwe Country Erdrich compellingly writes about the Ojibwe spirits and songs, language, and sorrows that have passed down through generations. Erdrich later travels to Rainy Lake, to an island of real books, the world of an exuberant eccentric and close friend to the Ojibwe, who established an extraordinary library there a hundred years ago. Set against commentary about her own family and contemporary lifeand written in beautiful and powerful proseBooks & Islands in Ojibwe Country is an intensely thoughtful, intimate, and fascinating cultural excursion.
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  • Title Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country
  • Author Louise Erdrich
  • Binding tight
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good+
  • Pages 143
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher National Geographic Society, Washington, D.c., U.s.a.
  • Date 2003-06-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 3/17/22-2
  • ISBN 9780792257196 / 0792257197
  • Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.58 x 5.6 x 0.77 in (21.79 x 14.22 x 1.96 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Ojibwa Indians, Novelists, American - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003045906
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Summary

For more than twenty years Louise Erdrich has dazzled readers with the intricately wrought, deeply poetic novels which have won her a place among today's finest writers. Her nonfiction is equally eloquent, and this lovely memoir offers a vivid glimpse of the landscape, the people, and the long tradition of storytelling that give her work its magical, elemental force. In a small boat like those her Native American ancestors have used for countless generations, she travels to Ojibwe home ground, the islands of Lake of the Woods in southern Ontario. Her only companions are her new baby and the baby's father, an Ojibwe spiritual leader, on a pilgrimage to the sacred rock paintings their people have venerated for centuries as mystical "teaching and dream guides," and where even today Ojibwe leave offerings of tobacco in token of their power. With these paintings as backdrop, Erdrich summons to life the Ojibwe's spirits and songs, their language and sorrows, and the tales that are in their blood, echoing through her own family's very contemporary American lives and shaping her vision of the wider world. Thoughtful, moving, and wonderfully well observed, her meditation evokes ancient wisdom, modern ways, and the universal human concerns we all share. "This book is a treasure and a delight."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

From the publisher

Louise Erdrich, daughter of an Ojibwe-French mother and a German-American father, is one of our foremost contemporary writers. Her first novel, Love Medicine, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and other prizes and launched a remarkable string of books that includes The Beet Queen, The Bingo Palace, Tales of Burning Love, and The Antelope Wife, among other triumphs. She lives in Minneapolis.


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About the author

Louise Erdrich, daughter of an Ojibwe-French mother and a German-American father, is one of our foremost contemporary writers. Her first novel, "Love Medicine, " won the National Book Critics Circle Award and other prizes and launched a remarkable string of books that includes "The Beet Queen, The Bingo Palace, Tales of Burning Love, " and "The Antelope Wife, " among other triumphs. She lives in Minneapolis.

"From the Trade Paperback edition."

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