The Bingo Palace

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A reissue of a much loved classic, from one of America's most celebrated novelists. Seeking direction and enlightenment, Lipsha Morrissey, a charismatic young drifter, answers his grandmother's summons to return to his birthplace. As he tries to settle into a challenging new job on the reservation, he falls passionately in love for the first time. But the object of his desire, the beautiful Shawnee Ray, is in the midst of deciding whether to marry his boss, the wealthy reservation entrepreneur, Lyman Lamartine. Matters are further complicated when Lipsha discovers that Lyman is his rival in more ways than one. In league with an influential group of aggressive business men, Lyman has chosen to open a gambling complex on reservation land -- a development which threatens to destroy the community's fundamental links with the past...

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'Erdrich's prose has a compelling pulse to it. It is fluent and seductive, with the vigour and erotic potency of good rock music.' 'Sunday Times''Louise Erdrich has made the psychological landscape of the dispossessed triumphantly her own. She infuses ordinary lives with surreal poetry. As comedy, tragedy and dream melt together, we float across the borderland of mythology and realism as each character is enshrined in a destiny that is at once uplifting and sad. In its empathy, its poetry and its sheer narrative power, 'The Bingo Palace' confirms Erdrich as one of the greatest composers writing today.' 'Independent on Sunday''An epic, haunting novel, at once uplifting and sad' Independent on Sunday'Extraordinarily powerful... Money and love, together, are the twin driving forces that impel The Bingo Palace towards the superb tragedy of its ending.' Guardian'The power of Louise Erdrich's writing lies in the clear access she has to her characters' thoughts and feelings, and her ability to translate those feelings into words that are both poetic and unforced. The Bingo Palace is a beautiful novel, mysterious and revelatory, from a powerful American voice.' Erica Wagner, The Times'Beautiful... The Bingo Palace shows us a place where love, fate and chance are woven together like a braid.' New York Times'Dazzling, poetic, absorbing... Erdrich's prose is full of marvels' Clare Messud, TLS

Author Bio

Louise Erdrich is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and is the author of many bestselling and critically acclaimed novels. She lives in Minnesota with her family, where she runs an independent bookstore, The Birchbark House. You can visit her online at www.louiseerdrichbooks.com.