Four Souls (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The twentieth century, post-World War I
- Setting: Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota
- Principal Characters: Fleur Pillager, John James Mauser, Nanapush, Margaret Kashpaw, Polly Elizabeth Gheen
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Wives, Mothers, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Native Americans or American Indians, Women, Revenge, Home, Land settlement, Minnesota
- Locales: Minneapolis, MN, St. Paul, MN
One of the keen pleasures of modern fiction is the work of Louise Erdrich, who uses her considerable talent to reconstruct the shattered lives of American Indians in the twentieth century. Beginning with Love Medicine (1984), she created a series of novels that explored the rich inner lives of the inhabitants of a fictional Indian reservation. The seventh volume in the series, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001), concerns the life of Father Damien's decades-long career as the reservation's resident priest. What makes that work so engrossing is the...
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