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The Beet Queen
Louise Erdrich
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Description for The Beet Queen
Paperback. A beautifully repackaged reissue of the magical novel from Louise Erdrich, winner of America's prestigious National Book Award for Fiction in 2012. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 278.
A beautifully repackaged reissue of the magical novel from Louise Erdrich, winner of America’s prestigious National Book Award for Fiction in 2012.
On a cold spring morning in 1932, two children, Karl and Mary Adare, leap from a boxcar. Orphaned in a most peculiar way, Karl and Mary have come to Argus, in the heart of rural North Dakota, to seek refuge with their aunt Fritzie.
So begins an exhilarating tale, spanning some forty years and brimming with unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary, who causes a miracle; seductive, restless Karl, who lacks his sister's gift for survival; Celestine James, Mary's life-long friend; and Celestine's fearless, wild daughter Dot – the Beet Queen.
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780006546207
SKU
V9780006546207
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-56
About Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted, prolific, and challenging of American novelists. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. She is the author of many novels, the first of which, Love Medicine, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the last of which, The Round House, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2012. She lives in Minnesota.
Reviews for The Beet Queen
'A perfect – and perfectly wonderful – novel.' Anne Tyler 'Violent, passionate, surprising … ‘The Beet Queen’ imparts its freshness of vision like an electric shock.' Angela Carter 'She is a writer of formidable strength and imagination, and she presents the fruits of both in a prose of flexible, haunting beauty.' Bernard Levin, Sunday Times 'A remarkable and luminous novel.' New York Times