Erdrich's latest novel, Shadow Tag, published in 2010, is the chilling tale of a failing marriage between two Native American people of differing tribal backgrounds, who artistic and family life deteriorate into ennui厌倦，无聊, deceit and abu, all of which are attributed to the overbearing, potentially sociopathic反社会的 tendencies of a domineering刚愎自用，喜欢支配别人的, abusive 骂人的，攻击性的husband but who, despite it all, cannot live with or without each other.
Shadow tag by Loui Erdrich( Book )
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This novel prents the story of Irene America, who is a smart, beautiful, introspective内省的，自省的 woman of Native American decent. Too distracted to finish her doctoral degree, she musters召集，集合 the emotional resources needed to keep two journals. The "Red Diary" is bait, filled with adulterous scenes that Irene us to push volatile 异变的，反复无常的rqartist husband Gil clo enough to the brink that he'll leave her. She unleashes 发泄，释放all her rage and frustration in the "Blue Notebook," which she keeps in a bank deposit box. Meanwhile, Gil believes that his o
bssive英语六级多少分算过萦绕于心的，有执着想法的aitai graphic形象的，生动的 paintings of Irene will somehow lure说服 her back to him. Caught in the crosshairs 十字准线，交叉线of their parents' cruel, messy unraveling are 13-year-old Florian, a genius who models his mother's excessive极度的 drinking habits; Riel, 11, who believes that only she can hold her disintegrating family together; and sunny little Stoney. The result is a cautionary tale of the shocking havoc毁坏 that willfully任性固执，蓄意地destructive, lf-centered spous wreak not only upon themlves but also upon their children.
When Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a cret Blue Notebook, stashed隐藏 curely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary—hidden where Gil will find it—into a manipulative对他人控制的，操纵的 charade. 伪装，猜字游戏As Irene and Gil fight to keep up appearances for their three children, their home becomes a place of increasing violence and crecy. And Irene drifts into alcoholism, moving ever clor to the ultimate destruction of a
relationship filled with shadowy need and strange ironies.
Alternating between Irene's twin journals and an unflinching third-person narrative, Loui Erdrich's Shadow Tag fearlessly explores the complex nature of love, the fluid boundaries of identity, and the anatomy解剖of one family's struggle for survival and redemption.
Shadow Tag, the brilliant new novel by Loui Erdrich, is a stunning tour-de-force from the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning and New York Times–xoyobestlling 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 inten and heart-wrenching story of a troubled marriage and a family in disarray—and a radical departure from Erdrich’s previous acclaimed work.
"Here is the most telling fact: you wish to posss me.
Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could."
When Irene America discovers that her husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a cret Blue Notebook, stashed curely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and her marriage, while turning her Red Diary—hidden where Gil will find it—into a manipulative farce. Alternating between the two records, complemented by unflinching third-person narration, Shadow Tag,英文字母发音 is an eerily gripping read.
Editorial Reviews
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Clear, urgent, deep as a swift river…accomplishes the literary miracle of making a reader ravenous to finish it, while stinging with regret at how soon it must end.” (San Francisco Chronicle )
“Gripping…a hushed and haunting tale that chillingly and convincingly reflects the upper-middle-class American experience, not only the Native American one.” (USA cheating death
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“ A fierce novel…raw…alive…vividly prent…it marks a breakthrough for the author.” (Columbus Dispatch )中国日报双语版
“A page-turner…a most compelling novel” (Dallas Morning News )
“A portrait of an ‘iconic’ marriage on its way to dissolution…Erdrich’s unbridled urgency yields startlingly original phrasing as well as flashes of blinding lucidity.” (New York Times Book Review )
“SHADOW TAG is compelling…a aring, personal examination of one family that’s falling apart.” (Miami Herald )
“Muscular and fearless…It is [Erdrich’s] superb telling of this story that makes it real, her stellar writing that brings powerful truth to invented worlds.” (BookPage )
“A brilliant cautionary tale…Reading it is like watching a wildfire who flames are so mesmerizingly beautiful that it’s almost easy to ignore the deadly mess left behind.” (Library Journal )
“A fast-paced novel of exceptional artistic, intellectual, and psychological merit…Nowhere have love’s complications been better illustrated than in the raw honesty of Shadow Tag.” (Boston Sunday Globe )
“SHADOW TAG is hard to It builds to a spectacular ending with a twist I didn’t Erdrich has taken a tragedy and turned it into art.” (Philadelphia Inquirer )
“A domestic drama that builds an almost thriller-like momentum…A novel as dark and tragic as it is difficult to put down” (San Diego Union-Tribune )
“Erdrich offers a portrait that’s convincing…Shadow Tag is wonderfully, painfully readable and revealing.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune )
“A masterpiece…a captivating work of fiction…exquisite…tightly focud…arresting…This profoundly tragic novel captures that lament in some of Erdrich’s most beautiful and urgent writing.” (Ron Charles, Washington Post )
“Read this if: You’re looking for a well-written, well-told tale that is thought- and discussion- provoking.” (Baltimore Sun )
“Into this deeply personal novel about marriage, family and individual identity, Erdrich weaves broader questions about cau and effect A small masterpiece of compelling, painfully moving fiction.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review) )
“An exquisite, character-driven tale…its piercing insights into x, family, and power are breathtaking…A masterfully concentrated and gripping novel of image and conquest, autonomy and love, inheritance and loss.” (Donna Seaman, Booklist )
About the Author
Loui Erdrich is the author of thirteen novels, veral volumes of poetry, short stories, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Plague of Doves was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in Minnesota and is the owner of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore.
A soul could be captured through a shadow. It was in the Ojibwe language. Waabaamoojichaagwaan – the word for mirror also can refer to shadow and to the soul: your soul is visible and can be en. Gil had placed his foot on Irene’s shado
w when he painted her. And though she tried to pull away, it was impossible to tug that skein of darkness from under his heel. - from Shadow Tag, page 40 -
Gil and Irene are married with three children: thirteen year old Florian (a math genius who learns from his mother to calm his anger with alcohol and drugs), eleven year old Riel (who plots elaborate survival plans to save her family in the event of disaster), and five year old Stoney (who clutches his stuffed animals in order to feel safe in a home which is becoming increasingly unpredictable). Gil is a successful artist who paints only portraits of Irene – portraits which are often humiliating and verge on the pornographic. Irene longs to leave her marriage to a man who is emotionally abusive to her and has begun to strike out at his children. But, their shared history, complicated by a love that requires Irene to submit and Gil to control, holds Irene in the marriage. When she discovers that Gil has been reading her diary, she decides to u this as a means to manipulate him, a way to force him to leave her.
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