![]() ![]() In Tales of Burning Love, celebrated novelist Louise Erdrich extends the boundaries of her literary vision with an audacious and penetrating look at the interconnected lives and love of five memorable women. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Marooned, frozen, in a snow-bound car, and in order to survive, Jack's wifes find themselves telling each other a last of the secret history each shares with him - stories that revive, warming tales of burning love. They are becalmed by the realization that they each married a different Jack Mauser, contrived a different history. And he has a secret: his marriages crack on what he conceals.His women swirl about in his wake, disoriented, stormy and changed. Yet this is a man who makes love in a convent, frightens a nun right to death and lets the pretty young stranger he has just married walk off alone into a blizzard. ![]() ![]() A builder sparring with bankruptcy, he finds that the women in his life accuse him of being emotionally barren, too. An epic study in the varieties of love from one of America's greatest story-weavers, and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2012.`Falling back in love with your first wife while married to your fifth was a sticky, stupid business.'Jack Mause simply feels too much. ![]()
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