The Master Butchers Singing Club (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Wives, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Marriage, Native Americans or American Indians, Cancer, Women, Death or dying, Wildlife, Wilderness, Meat, North Dakota, Butchers
- Locales: Germany, Argus, ND (fictive)
The Master Butchers Singing Club adds another family saga to those of the residents of Argus, North Dakota, whom Erdrich's readers have been getting to know since the 1980's. Fidelis Waldvogel's return from World War I in 1918 and his emigration from Germany in 1922 begin a narrative that moves through the development of small-town culture in the upper Midwest at the twentieth century's beginning to the Great Depression; it culminates nine years after the end of World War II.
Erdrich's genius for metaphor is employed in her creation of chapter titles. For example, chapter...
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