Louise Erdrich
Hardcover | Pages: 255 pages Rating: 3.39 | 6398 Users | 1388 Reviews
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| Title | : | Shadow Tag |
| Author | : | Louise Erdrich |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 255 pages |
| Published | : | February 2nd 2010 by Harper (first published 2010) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary |
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“Erdrich is a true original… [and] one of our major writers.” —Washington Post Book WorldShadow Tag, the brilliant new novel by Louise Erdrich, is a stunning tour-de-force from the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling author of Love Medicine and Pulitzer-Prize-finalist The Plague of Doves. In the vein of the novels of such contemporaries as Zoe Heller and Susan Minot, Shadow Tag is an intense and heart-wrenching story of a troubled marriage and a family in disarray—and a radical departure from Erdrich’s previous acclaimed work.
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| Original Title: | Shadow Tag |
| ISBN: | 0061536091 (ISBN13: 9780061536090) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.39 From 6398 Users | 1388 ReviewsWrite-Up Containing Books Shadow Tag
Tag, this novel isn't it.In SHADOW TAG, Irene discovers that her husband Gil has been reading her diary, so she begins a new hidden diary and uses her original diary as a tool to manipulate him. Having been the victim of privacy theft with regard to my diary/journal, the premise of the novel sounded promising, intriguing, and relatable. However, I was disappointed that there were very few diary entries, as this was how I expected the story to unfold. Furthermore, what few diary entries thereA professor told me 20 years ago to stop reading dead authors and start with some new, upcoming authors, such as Louise Erdrich. I should have listened to him. Award winning Erdrich has written a novel unlike any of her previous works. Shadow Tag is a painfully, intense story about a marriage slowly dying beyond repair and two highly dependent artists consumed with each other, letting all else fade into the background. Even their poor children gradually lose significance in their lives. Irene
She gets a 5 because I'm such a fan -- this was difficult to read, however, a searing portrait of a dysfunctional marriage. It's beautifully written, fearless (she has courage, this novelist) & raw, constructed with delicacy yet appalling, describing a sick marital symbiosis that is quite unsettling -- the characters are so unattractive I couldn't muster much compassion for them, feeling by the end that truly some people simply shouldn't breed. But these characters look fine on the surface.
"Love sees sharply, Hatred sees even more sharp, but Jealousy sees the sharpest for it is love and hate at the same time"-Arab ProverbI have to admit, I am both terrified and enamored with the characters in this story. Though it would be so easy to simply call them repugnant and their actions ugly, detaching myself from the story and pushing their outcomes into "That could never happen to me" land, would only tempt me down the road they traveled. Brutal and twisted though they may be, there's
Though the relationship between the couple in this book is disturbing and confounding, the book is haunting in its prose and the story is heartbreaking in its effects on the children, who are all well-drawn characters, as are their parents. The references to shadows and other images used as metaphors are subtle and well-placed. As with many of the novels I end up really liking, I found that the ending 'made' the book for me. This was my first Erdrich novel and I'm glad I finally read her.
There is a red diary hidden in plain sight. Irene continues to write in it even after she realizes Gil is secretly reading it. She writes, but she writes lies to entrap him. Irene keeps her own personal journal at the bank in a safe deposit box. She locks away her innermost truths. The father of her three children begins to doubt his paternity because of what he has read in her red diary. The gaps and fissures created between Irene's red diary and her blue book at the bank reveal how small
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