Sherman Alexie’s darkly humorous story collection weaves memory,
fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane
Indian Reservation. The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut
collection—an instant classic—paint an unforgettable portrait of
life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where
“Survival = Anger x Imagination,” where HUD houses and generations
of privation intertwine with history, passion, and myth. We follow
Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the longwinded storyteller no one really
listens to; his half-hearted nemesis, Victor, the basketball star
turned recovering alcoholic; and a wide cast of other vividly drawn
characters on a haunting journey filled with humor and sorrow,
resilience and resignation, dreams and reality. Alexie’s
unadulterated honesty and boundless compassion come together in a
poetic vision of a world in which the gaps between past and present
are not really gaps after all. The basis for the acclaimed 1998
feature film Smoke Signals,the Chicago Tribune noted, “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.” The collection received a Special Citation for the
PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction. This ebook edition
features a new prologue from the author, as well as an illustrated
biography and rare photos from Sherman Alexie’s personal collection.
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ISBN
9781480457164
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Vendor
Open Road Media
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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