About this title: A beautiful, compelling, utterly original new novel from one of the most important American writers of our time. Pluto, North Dakota, is a town on the verge of extinction. Its unsavory origins -- which lie in white greed -- contain the seeds of its demise. Here, everybody is connected -- by love or friendship, by blood, and, most importantly, by the burden of a shared history. Evelina Harp, a witty, ambitious young girl, part Ojibwe, part white, is growing up on the reservation. She is prone to falling hopelessly in love, most notably with her cousin, Corwin Peace, a misfit with a late ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781607512073ISBN:1607512076
Description: Good. Cover has slight shelf wear. Light soiling on sides of book. A few pages have been creased or wrinkled. Good reading copy. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781607512073ISBN:1607512076
Description: Good. Good title in good condition. Pages are clean and tight. Covers show some shelf wear and bumping. Satisfaction guaranteed. If item not as described, return for refund of purchase price. read more
Description: Acceptable. 2008-Unknown Binding----Used-Acceptable-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Description: Fine. 0060515139 Ships next business day. NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small black line on bottom/exterior edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2009-05-01
ISBN-13:9780060515133ISBN:0060515139
Description: Very good. The Plague of Doves: A Novel. Paperback. Appears to be unread with only the slightest bit of rubbing to thecover. 4964. read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: HarperPerennial, New York
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780060515133ISBN:0060515139
Description: Very Good. Fiction. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The unsolved murder of a farm family still haunts the white small town of Pluto, North Dakota. This book is in very good condition. The interior is clean and the spine is not creased. The covers have a little curl. read more
Description: Very Good. 0061562750 Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light curve to the spine / light reading creases to the covers. read more
Description: Fine. 0061562750 Ships next business day. NEW/UNREAD! ! ! Text is Clean and Unmarked! --Be Sure to Compare Seller Feedback and Ratings before Purchasing--Has a small black ink mark on bottom/exterior edge of pages. May have light shelf wear to cover from storage, if any. read more
Description: New. AUDIOBOOK. NOT A BOOK! Please order accordingly! All Audiobooks are in the original factory sealed shrinkwrap box! Box may show signs of dents, etc. All CD's Are guaranteed to play! Audio CD, New, 2009, read more
"I think I will remember this book for a very long time as that which introduced me to Louise Erdrich, because after picking up "The Plague of Doves," I want to read her entire canon. This does not happen often. It happened when I first read Margaret Atwood, but I cannot think of any other author whose work so captivated me on the first reading.
At times hilarious, morose, disturbing, and utterly heart-breaking, "The Plague of Doves," weaves together multiple narrators who offer their own perspectives on their small town of Pluto, North Dakota, and two terrible linked crimes which occurred there shortly after the turn of the century. This is one of those novels that in its own way defies "aboutness." Yes, there is a plot, but the book is so much more than what happens in it. The honesty of her characters and the vividness of their joys and trials is so real that their passions and sorrows practically infiltrate the reader's own and it's all a person can do to stop thinking about the book and its characters when going about one's day.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. As I stated at the beginning, from here on out I will be picking up anything from Louise Erdrich that I can get my hands on."
"I love Louise Erdrich, but this wasn't my favorite book of hers. When great critics and writers call a work like this "her masterpiece" they intimidate anyone to disagree. Honestly, I think she has a few potential novels in this one novel, which ultimately makes it feel less whole.
Many of the sections of this book were previously published as short stories (not novel excerpts) and they really do stand alone with an amazing depth and breadth of imagination, but what they create individually makes me feel there is something missing at the center. I did enjoy the book overall and she has created a few truly amazingly real characters. Still, the most intriguing character to me is the one who really was real -- Paul Holy Track. He was lynched by a mob in North Dakota in the late 1800's at age 13. I think fascination with this boy (an orphan who -- as Erdrich tells it-- wore small crosses on the bottom of his boots to keep away the tuberculosis that killed his mother) and his murder inspired this book as well as the true story of a plague of doves, but I just wish it would have stayed closer to these fascinating true stories at its heart.
The book is like One Hundred Years of Solitude in the way that the characters are all related somehow in this vast and crazy web. Though One Hundred Years of Solitude starts with a helpful chart of all the characters and no matter how crazy each individual story gets, it remains connected to the central story. This one asks you to invest in each individual story and then without bringing you to a satisfying ending, takes you down the road of another one. The book is marketed as a mystery, but the mystery feels diluted and unsatisfying. I think it would be better presented as a set of stories."
""I have already disappeared, as one does when long accustomed to one's own company."
It's tough for me to love any of Erdrich's books as much as I did "The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse", but I know what to expect from her now and can even imagine a time when I won't have to pick her up. Not that the stories are any less wonderful, but maybe I'm getting a little tired of trying to hold everybody's relationship to everybody else in my head (I thought of making a chart with this one, but that seems a little compulsive)--I have to do at least some of that to keep the stories from feeling just the least little bit random. I had read in The New Yorker the story about Evey and Nonette, and am a little disquieted to find that, at the end of my reading of this book, I don't feel too anchored to any of the relationships in the story. I don't really know Evey much better than I did after reading the New Yorker story, so maybe I'm beginning to mistrust the narrative thread that these relationships are said to create; maybe the relationships are less organic and more of a narrative gadget.
The final reveal about the long-ago murder is more of a "okay. well, then..." and that always makes for the kind of letdown that I'm not usually too forgiving about."
"I picked this up on a whim and found a very entertainiung piece about the workings of a small town at the edge of an Indian Reservation. It is a bit of a mystery but not really suspense. As the story unravels it begomes more and more intersting."
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