The Master Butchers Singing Club (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1918-1954
- Setting: Ludwigsruhe, Germany, and Argus, North Dakota
- Principal Characters: Fidelis Waldvogel, Eva (Kalb) Waldvogel, Franz Waldvogel, Markus Waldvogel, Emil Waldvogel, Maria Theresa Waldvogel, Delphine Watzka, Roy Watzka, Cyprian Lazarre, Clarisse Strub, Step-and-a-Half, Mazarine Shimek
- Genres: Long fiction, Novel
- 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 Argus, North Dakota, residents whom Louise 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 which moves through the development of small-town culture in the upper Midwest at the twentieth century’s beginning to the Great Depression and culminates nine years after the end of World War II. Erdrich enlivens the historic cultural shifts by revealing her characters’ personal dramas...
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