"Alexie's prose startles and dazzles with unexpected,
impossible-to-anticipate moves. These are cultural love stories,
and we laugh on every page with a fist tight around our
hearts."--The Boston Globe "Poetic and unremittingly honest . . .
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is for the American
Indian what Richard Wright's Native Son was for the black American
in 1940."--Chicago Tribune Sherman Alexie's celebrated first
collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,
established its author as one of America's most important and
provocative voices. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke
Signals, it remains one of his best loved and widely praised books
twenty years after its initial publication. 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
Alexie's most beloved characters, including Thomas Builds-the-Fire,
the storyteller who no one seems to listen to, and his compatriot,
Victor, the sports hero who turned into a recovering alcoholic. Now
with an updated introduction from Alexie, these twenty-four tales
are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and
government-issue cheese, and yet they are filled with passion and
affection, myth and charm. Against a backdrop of addiction, car
accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances
between men and women, Indians and whites, reservation Indians and
urban Indians, and, most poetically, modern Indians and the
traditions of the past.
General
| Imprint: |
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2013 |
| First published: |
October 2013 |
| Authors: |
Sherman Alexie
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 139 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
242 |
| Edition: |
20th Anniversary ed. |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8021-2199-8 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-8021-2199-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780802121998 |
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