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A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich's "Red Convertible"
A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich's "Red Convertible"
A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich's "Red Convertible"
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A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich's "Red Convertible"

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A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich's "Red Convertible," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 6, 2016
ISBN9781535831895
A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich's "Red Convertible"

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    A Study Guide for Louise Erdrich's "Red Convertible" - Gale

    5

    The Red Convertible

    Louise Erdrich

    1984

    Introduction

    The Red Convertible, one of Louise Erdrich’s most anthologized short stories, is the second chapter of her debut novel Love Medicine. The novel is a collection of fourteen stories bound by common characters and themes. When Holt published it in 1984, it became a bestseller that won awards such as the National Book Critics Circle Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters award for best first fiction. Since its publication, it has been translated into eighteen languages. In 1993, Erdrich expanded the book by four more stories. Love Medicine is the first in Erdrich’s series of novels portraying twentieth-century Chippewa life in North Dakota.

    The Red Convertible functions as a standalone story and is often selected by instructors to introduce Erdrich’s writing to students. In this story of brothers struggling to cope with their changing relationship and the changing world, Erdrich demonstrates the difficulties many Vietnam veterans and their families faced after the

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