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The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse

Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, ©2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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From the bestselling author of "Tracks" comes a dramatic sequel--a story of suspect miracles, tests of faith, and the corrosive and redemptive power of secrecy. Over the years, Father Damian has seen the reservation through its most severe crises, yet he is more than a heroic priest. He has lived with and served the Ojibwa people as a man of the cloth, and also as a woman. However, where does fact end and reality  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Psychological fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 0060187271 9780060187279 006093610X 9780060936105 9780965016544 0965016544
OCLC Number: 45102899
Description: 361 p. ; 25 cm.
Responsibility: Louise Erdrich.
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As a priest nears the end of his life, he is asked to prove or disprove the sainthood of a woman he knows well and struggles to guard his own secret identity in the process.  Read more...

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"[Erdrich's] best so far...told with such cleverness and compassion that the effect is nothing less than dazzling."--USA Today

 
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