Erdrich, Louise <br/><br/>
Tales of burning love 
/ Louise Erdrich 
 - New York  : Harper Collins  , c1996. 
 - 452 p. ; 25 cm. 
<br/><br/> Two epochal, whiteout North Dakota blizzards 23 years apart define the major events of Jack Mauser's life. During the first, in 1972, his young Chipewa wife, whom he has just married after a few hours acquaintance during a drunken binge, leave his car to perish in the cold (an event foreshadowed in The Bingo Palace). During the second, in 1995, Jack's succeeding wives, all four of them, are trapped overnight in Jack's van, having come together for his funeral. In this quartet of personalities, Erdrich creates a gallery of indelible portraits, each of them distinct, vivid and human in their frailties. What they have in common, their love for charming, preening, self-destructive Jack, is their means of survival through the frigid night. Each woman tells her tale-always full of passion, but often farcical, too-of how Jack wooed, wed, frustrated, drove to distraction, liberated and deserted her. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780060176051 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Divorced women----Fiction<br/>Blizzards----Fiction<br/>Funeral rites and ceremonies----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>North Dakota----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Domestic fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC ERD