The round house
Record details
- ISBN: 0062065254
- ISBN: 9780062065254
- ISBN: 0062213873
- ISBN: 9780062213877
- ISBN: 0062065246
- ISBN: 9780062065247
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Physical Description:
321 pages ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, 2012.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | 1988 -- Lonely among us -- Justice -- Loud as a whisper -- The naked now -- Datalore -- Angel one -- Hide and Q -- The big good-bye -- Skin of evil -- The child. |
Summary, etc.: | When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 13-year-old Joe Coutts sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family. Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and son, Joe. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. While his father, who is a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and sets out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some answers of his own. Their quest takes them first to the Round House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. And this is only the beginning. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.1 17.0 156731. |
Awards Note: | National Book Award Winner. |
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Subject: | Life change events Fiction Indian families Fiction Indian reservations Fiction Ojibwa Indians North Dakota Fiction Indian women Crimes against Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Suspense fiction. Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 60 of 65 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Brookfield Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 65 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Brookfield Library | F/ERDRICH (Text) | 34029123666462 | Display | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Author Notes
The Round House : National Book Award Winning Fiction
Karen Louise Erdrich was born on June 7, 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota. Erdrich grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where both of her parents were employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. She is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Erdrich graduated from Dartmouth College in 1976 with an AB degree, and she received a Master of Arts in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University in 1979. Erdrich published a number of poems and short stories from 1978 to 1982. In 1981 she married author and anthropologist Michael Dorris, and together they published The World's Greatest Fisherman, which won the Nelson Algren Award in 1982. In 1984 she won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Love Medicine, which is an expansion of a story that she had co-written with Dorris. Love Medicine was also awarded the Virginia McCormick Scully Prize (1984), the Sue Kaufman Prize (1985) and the Los Angeles Times Award for best novel (1985). In addition to her prose, Erdrich has written several volumes of poetry, a textbook, children's books, and short stories and essays for popular magazines. She has been the recipient of numerous awards for professional excellence, including the National Magazine Fiction Award in 1983 and a first-prize O. Henry Award in 1987. Erdrich has also received the Pushcart Prize in Poetry, the Western Literacy Association Award, the 1999 World Fantasy Award, and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 2006. In 2007 she refused to accept an honorary doctorate from the University of North Dakota in protest of its use of the "Fighting Sioux" name and logo. Erdrich's novel The Round House made the New York Times bestseller list in 2013. Her other New York Times bestsellers include Future Home of the Living God (2017). (Bowker Author Biography)