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020			_a9780060176051
082	0		_aFIC ERD
100	1		_aErdrich, Louise
245	1	0	_aTales of burning love _c/ Louise Erdrich
260			_aNew York _b: Harper Collins _c, c1996.
300			_a452 p. ; 25 cm.
520			_aTwo 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.
650			_aDivorced women _v--Fiction
650		4	_aBlizzards _v--Fiction
650		4	_aFuneral rites and ceremonies _v--Fiction
651		4	_aNorth Dakota _x--Fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
942			_cMO
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