- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; (Reissue) edition (31 July 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006546218
- ISBN-13: 978-0006546214
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 371,010 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Even readers won over by Louise Erdrich's two earlier works (Love Medicine and The Beet queen) may be surprised by her third novel. Tracks is a stunning and powerful book; it is by far the most impressive installment . . . Erdrich's lyricism gives her characters a moving and spellbinding intensity. Many readers will feel they have heard these voices speaking all of their lives." -- "Boston Phoenix" "Ms. Erdrich's novels, regional in the best sense, are 'about' the experience of Native Americans the way Toni Morrison's are about black people, William Faulkner's and Eudora Welty's about the South, Philip Roths and Bernard Malamud's about the Jews. The specificity implies nothing provincial or small . . . Ms. Erdrich artfully sifts the miraculous through the mundane." -- "New York Times Book Review"""Tracks" is as good as [Erdrich's] first two books, which is very good indeed . . . Time and time again she startles the reader with a perfect image." -- "Minneapolis Star Tribune""Fleur Pillager [is] one of the most haunting presences in contemporary American literatureTracks may be the story of our time."-- "Los Angeles Times""The author captures the passions, fears, myths, and doom of a living people, and she does so with an ease that leaves the reader breathless."-- "The New Yorker"A writer of truly extraordinary gifts--imaginative power, acute sensitivity, and unpretentious stylistic grace. At 34, she is completing a cycle of work already marked as a classic." -- "San Francisco Chronicle""What gives this novel its resonance is Erdrich's extraordinary ability to create not an approximation of the past but something that seems like a living, breathing evocation of it. It is a book ofpowerful, poetic images, in which myth and reality elide . . . The novel leaves behind an indelible impression." -- "The Guardian""It is difficult to pinpoint what is most compelling about Louise Erdrich's fiction--the elegance of the language, her art as a storyteller or the authenticity of her Native American characters . . . A triumph on all counts, haunting and, memorable." -- "Phoenix Republic"
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"Even readers won over by Louise Erdrich's two earlier works may be surprised by her third novel. Tracks is a stunning and powerful book: it is by far the most impressive installment."-- "Boston Phoenix"
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We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall. Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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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?
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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
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Chippewa Fleur Pillager is central to this tale of loss: a lifestyle lost through the influence of government and religion, allotted land lost on the reservation, and lost family structures and loyalties. But also a tale of survival and endurance with a cast of fascinating characters, not least wily Nanapush and duplicious Margaret. Humourous, evocative and wonderfully descriptive.
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"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.
Published on 15 April 2000
Remote characters, flat style, nothing of interest here
With few exceptions this book was plodding and lifeless. Although I found certain passages (very brief) moving and angered me (in terms of white greed) I found this book failed... Read more
Published on 12 Jun 1999
Not for anyone who likes action.
I read this for a college Novels course, and found it very average. The novel was a little confusing, being that it switched from narrator-to-narrator, and as well, there seemed... Read more
Published on 19 May 1999
Probably should have liked it
OK, I read this for an English class. Worse yet, I had to write a paper on it. Toughest paper I ever wrote because I could not stay awake. Read more
Published on 7 April 1999
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