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Summary: "Where butchers sing like angels."
Review: Travelling the 36-year distance between two World Wars, in her latest novel Louise Erdrich navigates a "world where butchers sing like angels." After WWI, German expert sniper and master butcher, Fidelis Waldvogel marries his best friends's pregnant fiance, Eva, and the two then emigrate to Argus, North Dakota, where they open an Old-World meat shop. Meanwhile, Delphine Watzka returns to Argus from her travelling vaudeville show with her homosexual balancing partner, Cyprian Lazarre, to care for Delphine's alcoholic father, Roy. It is against the ever-changing landscape of North Dakota that the scenes of Erdrich's small-town drama of love and death unfold. A son takes his dying mother on an airplane ride. A grief-stricken father shoots then burns a pack of wild dogs. A resilient woman explores her mysterious past. Memorable, lyrical, and beautiful, THE MASTER BUTCHER'S SINGING CLUB is nothing less than superb.G. Merritt
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Summary: My new favorite book
Review: Warning: this book is NOT about a Master Butcher's Singing Club. It is the story of Delphine Watzka. Erdrich has a wonderful way of intricately weaving subplots together to create a fully three-dimensional character. A poignant, moving, beautifully written novel. Erdrich's best yet!
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Summary: Wish I had her to look forward to...
Review: When someone sees me carrying one of Louise Erdich's books and asks how it is, my first question is, "Have you read her other books?" If the answer is no, I reply "I'm jealous. I wish I had her to look forward to." Her books never fail to meserize me, from the first page. With flashes of dark earthy humor and knowledge of the territory surpassing any other writer, she brings to life a place and people so vividly, the reader feels they've been there. Her geography is distinct, like Faulker's Yoknapatawpha County. As are her people.
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