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Erdrich, Louise

The painted drum / Louise Erdrich. - First Harper Perennial edition. - 276 pages, 18 pages ; 21 cm

"P.S. insights, interviews & more--"--Cover. Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, 2005.

Faye Travers, a middle-aged divorcee and specialist in Native American antiquities, discovers a rare ceremonial drum while assessing the estate of a New Hampshire man descended from an Indian agent, and, when she hears the sound of the drum without even touching the instrument, she feels compelled to steal it and return it to a North Dakota reservation where its remarkable history is revealed.

ISBN: 0060515112 9780060515119

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Indians of North America--Fiction
Indian reservations--Fiction
Villages--Fiction
Drum--Fiction.
Children--Death--Fiction

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New England--Fiction

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Psychological fiction
Domestic fiction

LC Class. No.: PS3555.R42 / P35 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54