Shadow tag / by Louise Erdrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erdrich, Louise, author.

Contributor:

HarperCollins (Firm), publisher.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Artists--Family relationships--Fiction.

Artists.

Alcoholism--Fiction.

Alcoholism.

Diary fiction.

Minnesota--Fiction.

Minnesota.

Artists--Family relationships.

Genre:

Fiction

Penn Provenance:

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

Erdrich, Louise (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 255, [1] pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

[Advance reader's edition].

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, [2010]

Summary:

This novel presents the story of Irene America, who is a smart, beautiful, introspective woman of Native American descent. Too distracted to finish her doctoral degree, she musters the emotional resources needed to keep two journals. The "Red Diary" is bait, filled with adulterous scenes that Irene uses to push volatile artist husband Gil close enough to the brink that he'll leave her. She unleashes all her rage and frustration in the "Blue Notebook," which she keeps in a bank deposit box. Meanwhile, Gil believes that his obsessive graphic paintings of Irene will somehow lure her back to him. Caught in the crosshairs of their parents' cruel, messy unraveling are 13-year-old Florian, a genius who models his mother's excessive drinking habits; Riel, 11, who believes that only she can hold her disintegrating family together; and sunny little Stoney. The result is a cautionary tale of the shocking havoc that willfully destructive, self-centered spouses wreak not only upon themselves but also upon their children.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy signed by the author on title leaf.

ISBN:

9780061964046

0061964042

9780061946103

0061946109

OCLC:

1460995344