![]() ![]() Whalley’s performance is excellent, combining the vulnerability of a beaten wife with the steeliness of a woman determined to survive. Her lies spring from a desire to remain positive in the face of criminality and daily drudgery and she serves as a warning to Mary of what she may become if she remains in this life. ![]() Little more than a damsel in the novel, here Patience has been written as a multi-dimensional figure. One such welcome change is the expansion of Aunt Patience’s role. Initially arriving at the inn with a strictly black and white moral view of the world, she is quickly worn down by the morality of the locals, which is more of a murky grey.Īs with any adaptation, changes to the original text have been made, but largely for the benefit of the story and the characters. ![]() In doing so, Frost establishes Mary’s isolation in this world. Emma Frost’s adaptation quickly gets to the heart of the smuggling ring using the inn as its base and thrusts Mary into the action. The first episode wears its Gothic sensibilities on its sleeve there are ever-lengthening shadows, enigmatic figures glimpsed from afar and a mystery to be solved. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Prologue - Funes, the memorious / translated by Anthony Kerrigan - The form of the sword / translated by Anthony Kerrigan - Theme of the traitor and hero / translated by Anthony Kerrigan - Death and the compass / translated by Anthony Kerrigan - The secret miracle / translated by Anthony Kerrigan - Three versions of Judas / translated by Anthony Kerrigan - The end / translated by Anthony Kerrigan - The sect of the Phoenix / translated by Anthony Kerrigan - The South / translated by Anthony Kerrigan ![]() Prologue - Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / translated by Alastair Reid - The approach to Al-Mu'tasim / translated by Anthony Kerrigan - Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote / translated by Anthony Bonner - The circular ruins / translated by Anthony Bonner - The Babylon lottery / translated by Anthony Kerrigan - An examination of the work of Herbert Quain / translated by Anthony Kerrigan - The library of Babel / translated by Anthony Kerrigan - The garden of forking paths / translated by Helen Temple and Ruthven Todd ![]() ![]() "Translated from the Spanish, ©1956 by Emecé Editores, S.A., Buenos Aires"-Title page verso ![]() ![]() ![]() Tookie is arrested and incarcerated for body stealing, drug transport, and accepting money for doing so. ![]() However, Tookie fails to realize that the corpse is taped with drugs. Tookie, a Native American woman in Minnesota, steals the body of her crush’s former lover. ![]() This guides uses the 2021 Kindle edition of The Sentence, published by Harper.Ĭontent Warning: The book and this guide contain references to illicit drug use and overdose, human trafficking, inappropriate handling of corpses, police brutality, and institutionalized racism. A recipient of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Erdrich is the author of 28 books. Louise Erdrich, the owner of Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a member of the Native American tribe known as the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. ![]() Erdrich narrates primarily through the first-person point-of-view of the protagonist, Tookie, an Ojibwe (or Chippewa) woman whose character development is informed by a cast of complex secondary characters, including the ghost of a white woman appropriating Native American culture. Infused with autobiographical allusions to author Erdrich’s own life, the novel explores spirituality, bookstores, stories, and current events as symbolic of the human experience. ![]() |