Python's Kiss: Stories
Testifies to the intrepidity of her explorations and her commitment to blurring boundaries ... Thrilling ... Intricate yet vast ... Ouroboros-like, Erdrich is in continual, self-devouring motion and thus presents a kind of constancy of transmutation — identity itself becomes a variable in the endless calculation of renewal. This is storytelling as wisdom magic: These are wonders to be cherished and pondered.
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What’s better than a new tale from Minneapolis writer Louise Erdrich? How about 13 new tales? ... Erdrich is not afraid to take chances ... Poignant.
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Louise Erdrich has been described as one of the greatest American writers, and this collection lives up to that billing. There are all the usual little writerly things – the disarming understatement of her phrasing, the elegance of structure, the graceful layering of meaning under apparent simplicity – while she still manages to avoid the problem of contrivance ... Every story is intriguing, most are funny, many poignant.
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