A casebook on Louise Erdrich's first novel, "Love Medicine", which came out in 1984 to instant national acclaim, winning a National Book Circle Critics Award and launching a tetralogy which it would take Erdrich ten years to complete. In its centrality to Native American literary tradition, "Love Medicine" is an uncompromising and irresistible portrait of a community till then too often portrayed in flat or comic terms.
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A casebook on Louise Erdrich's first novel, "Love Medicine", which came out in 1984 to instant national acclaim, winning a National Book Circle Critics Award and launching a tetralogy which it would take Erdrich ten years to complete. In its centrality to Native American literary tradition, "Love Medicine" is an uncompromising and irresistible portrait of a community till then too often portrayed in flat or comic terms.
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