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The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich. Publication Date: March 3, ; Paperback: pages; Publisher: Harper Perennial; ISBN ; ISBN A hauntingly beautiful story of a mysterious woman who enters the lives of two families and changes them forever, Erdrich’s classic novel, The Antelope Wife, has enthralled readers for more than a decade with its powerful themes of fate and ancestry, tragedy and salvation/5(79).  · The Antelope Wife combines Native mysticism and legend with the multi-generational stories of the Roy and Shawano families. Linked by one woman, she will bring their destinies full circle. Written in lyrical prose and infused with haunting imagery, the story alternates between grief and acceptance, with a rare glimpse of bltadwin.ru by:

Erdrich's stunningly imagined sixth novel follows the trail blazed by such well-received predecessors as The Bingo Palace (). Over several generations, a strange symbiosis binds, as it divides, two families, the Roys and the Shawanos. Erdrich begins with a cryptic image—of women sewing beads into an indiscernible pattern-then briefly tells the story of Scranton Roy, who is drawn westward. Buy The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 6 editions - starting at $ Shop now. In , Louise Erdrich published The Antelope Wife to high praise from readers and from critical reviewers. But in , Erdrich reread the novel and started to think about the characters. The result was a complete reworking of the book, published in

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. by Louise Erdrich. To follow the trail of Erdrich's narrative in The Antelope Wife, remember a few essential things: 1. Time is not a linear process but a pool of information at which we drink. On the last page the story folds back nearly a hundred years to its beginning and, in the same paragraph, reaches forward twenty-five years past its own end, because what we need to know swims quietly in those two places. The Antelope Wife combines Native mysticism and legend with the multi-generational stories of the Roy and Shawano families. Linked by one woman, she will bring their destinies full circle. Written in lyrical prose and infused with haunting imagery, the story alternates between grief and acceptance, with a rare glimpse of joy.