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More copies of this ISBNThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heavenby Sherman Alexie
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher 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:Sherman Alexies critically celebrated first collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established its author as one of Americas most important and provocative voices. Vividly weaving memory, fantasy, and stark reality to paint a portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian reservation, this book introduces some of Alexies most beloved characters who inhabit his distinctive landscape. There is Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the storyteller who no one seems to listen to, and his compatriot—and sometimes not-so-great friend—Victor, the basketball hero who turned into a recovering alcoholic. Now with two new stories and an introduction from Alexie, these twenty-four interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet filled with passion and affection, myth and charm. 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. 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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