Tales of Burning Love (Flamingo original)
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I came across Louise Erdrich through bookcrossing, when I picked up "The Master Butcher's Singing Club". I loved her poetic writing style. This novel I got at a jumble sale.
A moving book about a man who loves five women (one after the other) and the women who love the man, without the story being trivial. All characters are beautifully described, one can emphasize with any of them. Also the substories are perfectly woven into the main story. Regrettably I finished the book.
From Amazon:
‘Falling back in love with your first wife while married to your fifth was a sticky, stupid business.’
Jack Mauser simply feels too much. A builder sparring with bankruptcy, he finds that the women in his life accuse him of being emotionally barren, too. 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. Jack has a very rich history. And he has a secret: his marriages crack on what he conceals.
His women swirl about in his wake, disoriented, stormy and changed. They are becalmed by the realization that they each married a different Jack Mauser, contrived a different history. 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.
A moving book about a man who loves five women (one after the other) and the women who love the man, without the story being trivial. All characters are beautifully described, one can emphasize with any of them. Also the substories are perfectly woven into the main story. Regrettably I finished the book.
From Amazon:
‘Falling back in love with your first wife while married to your fifth was a sticky, stupid business.’
Jack Mauser simply feels too much. A builder sparring with bankruptcy, he finds that the women in his life accuse him of being emotionally barren, too. 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. Jack has a very rich history. And he has a secret: his marriages crack on what he conceals.
His women swirl about in his wake, disoriented, stormy and changed. They are becalmed by the realization that they each married a different Jack Mauser, contrived a different history. 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.
