The Bingo Palace (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: About 1990
- Setting: North Dakota
- Principal Characters: Lipsha Morrissey, Lyman Lamartine, Shawnee Ray Toose, Zelda Kashpaw Johnson, Lulu Nanapush, Marie Kashpaw, Fleur Pillager
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Love or romance, Gambling, Native Americans or American Indians, Death or dying
- Locales: North Dakota
Though the center of The Bingo Palace is Lipsha Morrissey’s pursuit of Shawnee Toose, this novel is much more than a love story. Lipsha makes essentially the same discoveries about love that several of Louise Erdrich’s characters make in the novel that precedes it chronologically, Love Medicine (1984; expanded edition, 1993). He discovers that love is the essential medicine, the power that binds humanity together in the face of death. When, at the end of the novel, Lipsha faces death as an adult for the first time, he realizes fully that the human response is to hold...
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