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| Original Title: | Shadow Tag |
| ISBN: | 0061536091 (ISBN13: 9780061536090) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Louise Erdrich
Hardcover | Pages: 255 pages Rating: 3.39 | 6398 Users | 1388 Reviews
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| Title | : | Shadow Tag |
| Author | : | Louise Erdrich |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 255 pages |
| Published | : | February 2nd 2010 by Harper (first published 2010) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary |
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“Erdrich is a true original… [and] one of our major writers.” —Washington Post Book WorldShadow Tag, the brilliant new novel by Louise Erdrich, is a stunning tour-de-force from the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling author of Love Medicine and Pulitzer-Prize-finalist The Plague of Doves. In the vein of the novels of such contemporaries as Zoe Heller and Susan Minot, Shadow Tag is an intense and heart-wrenching story of a troubled marriage and a family in disarray—and a radical departure from Erdrich’s previous acclaimed work.
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Ratings: 3.39 From 6398 Users | 1388 ReviewsCriticize Appertaining To Books Shadow Tag
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGEDiana PostlethwaiteShadow TagBy Louise ErdrichHarper CollinsLOUISE ERDRICH HAS CRAFTED A harrowing novel of fire and ice, withlove and violence, exhilaration and terror, and the warm security offamily rituals alternating unpredictably with chilling outbursts ofemotional and physical violence. Shadow Tags form and content makefor disturbing polarities: Erdrich imposes her exquisite mastery of language, imagery and literary form upon the raw and brutal chaos of mentalThis is my first Louise Erdrich book. I am aware that she is a prolific writer, and well-respected, but I just never got around to reading any of her other books.Shadow Tag is the story of Gil and Irene America and their family, who are of Native American heritage and living in Minnesota. Gil is an established artist of the Indian experience, and his most famous paintings feature Irene as the model. The story is told largely through diary entries, one being Irene's "real" diary, and the other
A professor told me 20 years ago to stop reading dead authors and start with some new, upcoming authors, such as Louise Erdrich. I should have listened to him. Award winning Erdrich has written a novel unlike any of her previous works. Shadow Tag is a painfully, intense story about a marriage slowly dying beyond repair and two highly dependent artists consumed with each other, letting all else fade into the background. Even their poor children gradually lose significance in their lives. Irene
When an author names a character Irene America, chances are the name has not been randomly chosen. Irene is a a woman, but she is also a symbol for a country, a culture, a part of history. And when that character is also Native American, her symbolic impact becomes even more nuanced. And when that characters husband is a famous artist whose paintings are all inspired by Irenes image, then suddenly the conceptual framework intensifies and individual interpretation of Irene - of her image, of the
I like Louise Erdrich's books but I generally don't actively like her characters, I just sort of tolerate them. The one time I did like her protagonist, there was something about the plot that didn't grab me and I never got past the first chapter or two.This time, I am both intrigued by the characters and wholly drawn into the premise. This should be a great read. Wondering a little bit, too, if it's related at all to the breakup of her marriage to Michael Dorris.***Now that I've finished, I can
Shadow Tag is, we hear tell, a novelization of the demise of Erdrichs marriage. It is an insightful, beautifully written portrait in which the character of the marriage, Dorian-Gray-like, is revealed to be somewhat wanting. Gil and Irene are the unhappy couple. Gil has made a successful career painting his wife. We see in what we are told about his paintings the changes in their marriage. Irene America had been the subject of his paintings in all of her incarnationsthin and virginal, a girl,
I thought that this was a great concept. A woman (Irene) discovers that her husband (Gil) is reading her diary - the red diary - so she writes things in that diary to manipulate him. At the same time, she opens up a safe deposit box at the bank where she writes in her blue diary. The plot was really compelling, and I had a hard time putting it down.I wonder if the book wouldn't have been better if Erdich had stuck to this concept in terms of telling the story, though. The narration really only
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