Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #130365 in Books
• Published on: 1989-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

Poetry in motion.
When I used Love Medicine in a university level English Literature course I thought I'd hit gold for getting my students to open up to literature with Erdrich's book. Lipsha's quest for identity connected with the young men and women alike. But Tracks was even more efective. Fleur's fight against the loggers and land developers turned 32 college sophmores into hardy land conservationists. The incredible transportating of a successful hunt with the meat tied to the hero's body struck a cord of awe at having been given a view of survival that took them beyond their trips to their local grocery stores. Erdrich opens windows to another culture, different values, and to history in ways that made my students begin to "see" the world beyond their dormrooms. What other author writing today can do the same with such poetry?

"I think she is a poet..."
Accually, I have only one thing to say and that is about her way of using the language - it is simple and beautiful and proves her to be an outstanding poet of words.

great from beginning to end!
She is such an unusual writer, and her use of language is beautiful. I really see her characters and their life clearly. This book is great. the first sentence 'we started dieing before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.' she depicts the heritage and the present of the First Nation Objiwe with awful clarity, but whilst keeping dignity in her characters. and the female roles are always so strong. Erdrich must soon come to be realised as a writer that has greatness in her