In Tales of Burning Love, celebrated novelist Louise Erdrich extends the boundaries of her literary vision with an audacious and penetrating look at the interconnected lives and love of five memorable women. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Marooned, frozen, in a snow-bound car, and in order to survive, Jack's wifes find themselves telling each other a last of the secret history each shares with him - stories that revive, warming tales of burning love. They are becalmed by the realization that they each married a different Jack Mauser, contrived a different history. And he has a secret: his marriages crack on what he conceals.His women swirl about in his wake, disoriented, stormy and changed. Yet this is a man who makes love in a convent, frightens a nun right to death and lets the pretty young stranger he has just married walk off alone into a blizzard. A builder sparring with bankruptcy, he finds that the women in his life accuse him of being emotionally barren, too. section with additional insights from the author, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more.An epic study in the varieties of love from one of America's greatest story-weavers, and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2012.`Falling back in love with your first wife while married to your fifth was a sticky, stupid business.'Jack Mause simply feels too much. This edition of Tales of Burning Love includes a P.S. With her characteristic powers of observation and luminescent prose, Louise Erdrich brings these women's unforgettable tales to life in a tour de force from one of the most formidable American writers at work today. At times painful, at times heartbreaking, and oftentimes comic, their tales become the adhesive that holds them together-in their love for Jack and in their lives as women.
Huddling for warmth, they pass the endless night by remembering the stories of how each came to love, marry, and ultimately move beyond Jack.
Now, stranded in a North Dakota blizzard, they have come face-to-face-and each has an astonishing story to tell. with great poignancy and charm." - New York Times Book ReviewĪ darkly humorous novel of wild romance and heartbreak set against a raging North Dakota blizzard as five Native American women bond over their shared connection to one man, from award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrichįive very different women have married Jack Mauser, a charming, infuriating schemer whose passions never survive the long haul. The result is a rich and fragrant infusion. "Romantic love, religious ecstasy, the strange mixture of devotion and misunderstanding that runs through families-all are steeped together.
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