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War Dances

by Sherman Alexie

Average based on 3 comments. Synopses & Reviews Customer Comments (3) ISBN13: 9780802144898 ISBN10: 0802144896 Condition: Standard All Product Details Only 3 left in stock at $8.95!

 

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Fresh off his National Book Award win, Alexie delivers a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of stories that explores the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large.

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In his first new fiction since winning the National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, best-selling author Sherman Alexie delivers a virtuoso collection of tender, witty, and soulful stories that expertly capture modern relationships from the most diverse angles. War Dances brims with Alexies poetic and revolutionary prose, and reminds us once again why he ranks as one of our countrys finest writers.

With bright insight into the minds of artists, entrepreneurs, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with average men on the brink of exceptional change: In the title story, a son recalls his fathers “natural Indian death” from alcohol and diabetes, just as he learns that he himself may have a brain tumor; “The Ballad of Paul Nonetheless,” dissects a vintage clothing store owners failing marriage and courtship of a Puma-clad stranger in airports across the country; and “Breaking and Entering” recounts a film editors fateful confrontation with an thieving adolescent.

Brazen and wise War Dances takes us to the heart of what it means to be human. The new beginnings, successes, mistakes, and regrets that make up our daily lives are laid bare in this wide-ranging new work that is quintessential

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Laur, January 1, 2011 (view all comments by Laur)
Stunning, eloquent insights laced with sharp humor and compassion. Don't miss this opportunity to read the best contemporary writer in the U.S.

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Sherman Alexie rocks

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Humor, pain, irony, helplessness, hopefulness - Alexie captures all of it in War Dances. A mix of short stories and poems this is another outstanding offering from one of my favorite authors.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780802144898

Author:

Alexie, Sherman

Publisher:

Grove Press

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Edition Description:

Trade Paper

Publication Date:

20100831

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Language:

English

Pages:

208

Dimensions:

8.25 x 5.5 in

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Product details 208 pages Grove Press - 2012-07-23 English 9780802144898 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Ingram, Fresh off his National Book Award win, Alexie delivers a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of stories that explores the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and the world at large.

"Synopsis" by Firebrand,

In his first new fiction since winning the National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, best-selling author Sherman Alexie delivers a virtuoso collection of tender, witty, and soulful stories that expertly capture modern relationships from the most diverse angles. War Dances brims with Alexies poetic and revolutionary prose, and reminds us once again why he ranks as one of our countrys finest writers.

With bright insight into the minds of artists, entrepreneurs, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with average men on the brink of exceptional change: In the title story, a son recalls his fathers “natural Indian death” from alcohol and diabetes, just as he learns that he himself may have a brain tumor; “The Ballad of Paul Nonetheless,” dissects a vintage clothing store owners failing marriage and courtship of a Puma-clad stranger in airports across the country; and “Breaking and Entering” recounts a film editors fateful confrontation with an thieving adolescent.

Brazen and wise War Dances takes us to the heart of what it means to be human. The new beginnings, successes, mistakes, and regrets that make up our daily lives are laid bare in this wide-ranging new work that is quintessential