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The Antelope Wife
by Erdrich, Louise
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Spray, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: HarperFlamingo, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interior, unobtrusive remainder mark along bottom edge, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Another fine Native American-themed novel by the author of Tracks, Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, The Master Butcher's Singing Club, among many other stories. This sprawling novel is set in the mid-late 1870s telling the sad tale who has to leave her marriage to join her family; she is pregnant and huge, and the journey is long and perilous. In travel and in great distress she meets a strangely matched Native American man. 240 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
Synopsis
The Antelope Wife extends the branches of the families who populate Louise Erdrich's earlier novels, and once again, her unsentimental, unsparing writing captures the Native American sense of despair, magic, and humor. Rooted in myth and set in contemporary Minneapolis, this poetic and haunting story spans a century, at the center of which is a mysterious and graceful woman known as the Antelope Wife. Elusive, silent, and bearing a mystical link to nature, she embodies a complicated quest for love and survival that impacts lives in unpredictable ways. Her tale is an unpredictable ways. Her tale is an unforgettable tapestry of ancestry, fate, harrowing tragedy, and redemption, that seems at once modern and eternal.
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- Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355715
- Title
- The Antelope Wife
- Author
- Erdrich, Louise
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- HarperFlamingo
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 8vo 8" - 9" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Louise Erdrich The Antelope Wife
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