Cruel Love
Louise Erdrich’s new novel is a portrait of an “iconic” marriage on its way to dissolution, and it appears to be seeded with deliberate allusions to her own marriage with the writer Michael Dorris.
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 5 February, 2010
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