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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780802141675 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
When it was first published in 1993, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established Sherman Alexie as a stunning new talent of American letters. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals it remains one of his most beloved and widely praised books. In this darkly comic collection, Alexie brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and, most poetically, modern Indians and the traditions of the past.
Review:
"Alexie writes with grit and lyricism that perfectly capture the absurdity of a proud, dignified people living in the squalor, struggling to survive in a society they disdain. Highly recommended for all fiction collections." Dan Bogie, Library Journal
Review:
"With wrenching pain and wry humor, the talented Alexie... presents contemporary life on the Spokane Indian Reservation through 22 linked stories....Irony, grim humor, and forgiveness help characters transcend pain, anger and loss while the same qualities make it possible to read Alexie's fiction without succumbing to hopelessness." Kirkus Reviews
Review:
"These spare, disturbing stories trace with stark, lyric power the experience of American Indians in the modern world." New York Times Book Review
Review:
"Stunning and compelling. Alexie is a visionary and by far the best writer I've seen published in recent years." Talk of the Town, Washington
Review:
"Alexie blends an almost despairing social realism with jolting flashes of visionary fantasy and a quirky sense of gallows humor." The Bloomsbury Review
Review:
"Twenty-two extremely fine short stories, all set on or around the Spokane reservation in Washington state." Publishers Weekly
Synopsis:
In this darkly comic collection of 22 interlocked tales, Alexia brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation.
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dawn betts-green, August 10, 2007 (view all comments by dawn betts-green)
Sherman Alexie's books are always fabulous, and this one is no exception. The stories in this collection are some of the best ever written, and I'll soon need a new copy because mine is falling completely apart.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780802141675
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Grove/Atlantic
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Short Stories (single author)
- Subject:
- Washington (state)
- Subject:
- Spokane Indians.
- Subject:
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
- Subject:
- Stories (single author)
- Subject:
- Native American Studies
- Publication Date:
- March 2005
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 825x550
