Love medicine / a novel by Louise Erdrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erdrich, Louise, author.

Contributor:

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc., publisher.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--North Dakota--Fiction.

Indians of North America.

Ojibwa Indians--Fiction.

Ojibwa Indians.

Manners and customs.

North Dakota.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

North Dakota--Social life and customs--Fiction.

North Dakota--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 1540))

Purchase Free Library (Purchase, N.Y.) (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 1540))

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 6215))

Erdrich, Louise (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 6215))

Physical Description:

viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 275 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, [1984]

Summary:

A story of the intertwined fates of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines near a North Dakota reservation from 1934 to 1984.

Contents:

The world's greatest fishermen

Saint Marie

Wild geese

The beads

Lulu's boys

The plunge of the brave

Flesh and blood

A bridge

The red convertible

Scales

Crown of thorns

Love medicine

The good tears

Crossing the water,

Notes:

American Book Award, 1985

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 1540) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 1540) has stamps of Purchase Free Library (Purchase, N.Y.), all effaced, on front free endpaper, title leaf, p. 272, date due pocket affixed to verso of back free endpaper and tail-edge.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 1540): dust jacket retained.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 6215) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 6215) inscribed to Caroline F. Schimmel ("To Saint Caroline Thankyou from Louise & PEN") by the author on title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 6215): "First edition, extra-illustrated throughout by the author in colored pens and with mementos pasted in ... For a PEN America charity auction in 2014, [the author] sprinkled this copy with autobiographical annotations and with cut-out mementos and cartoons ... The colored vine seen throughout is 'Floral beading designs based on shirt, Fort Totten, North Dakota 1890.'"--Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 6215): dust jacket retained.

Cited in:

Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 8

ISBN:

0030706114

9780030706110

080501716X

9780805017168

0061787426

9780061787423

0060975547

9780060975548

OCLC:

10483004