(.) There may be several good novels buried somewhere in The Sentence, but all of them are still struggling to get out." - Jon Day, Financial Times (.) The biggest problem with The Sentence is that it’s a ghost story that is not in the least bit scary. I don’t think I’ve ever read a novel which mentions so many living writers (all approvingly). (.) There’s a great deal of literary name-checking too. (.) What I found more annoying was the reverential and slightly puritanical defence of literature and bookshops which runs throughout the novel. But it also shows just how difficult it is for art to respond to the world in real time. "Its shortcomings are mainly the result of its scattergun lack of focus - you feel it simply doesn’t know what kind of a book it wants to be.Erdrich's fictional account of Tookie's pandemic experience, as singular and as universal as anyone's, resonates with strange and familiar detail (.) but doesn't blend consistently with her tale of the phantom Flora." - Mary Sollosi, Entertainment Weekly "Tookie's voice is genuine and humorous, her perspective rich with history, literacy, and quietly simmering fury.
General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī : enjoyable bookish novel of our recent times Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.The Sentence begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020.Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store.
A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. DESCRIPTION BOOK : In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book.
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