Red Convertible

<p>A stunning collection of short stories by Louise Erdrich author of the National Book Award-winning <em>The Round House</em>. Selected by the author herself from over three decades of work <em>The Red Convertible</em> is a veritable masterclass in the art of short fiction. In Saint Marie a Native American girl leaves her reservation to enter the Sacred Heart Convent and is propelled into a life-and-death struggle with the diabolical Sister Leopolda. Knives features a homely butcher's assistant a devoted reader of love stories who falls for a good-looking but predatory traveling salesman with devastating consequences for each of them. A passion for music in Naked Woman Playing Chopin proves more powerful than any experience of carnal or spiritual love; indeed when Agnes DeWitt removes her clothing to enter the music of a particular composer she sweeps all before her and transcends mortality and time itself.</p><p>A collection of breathtaking power and originality <em>The Red Convertible</em> cements Louise Erdich's position in the pantheon of consummate innovative writers of the American short story alongside such luminaries as Flannery O'Connor and Charles Baxter</p><p> </p>