The Lone-Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
$24.77
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
7 November 1997
Summary
Twenty-two powerful stories which balance unbearable honesty about the difficulties of life in an American Indian reservation with irrepressible passion, warmth and wit. Ball games, cars, and romances—the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie explores some of the major issues of our time—the pull between the urban and the rural, the future and the past; the trials and tribulations of young adulthood; the complex de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780749386696 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 074938669X |
| Author: | Sherman Alexie |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 7 November 1997 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
So wide-ranging, dexterous and consistently capable of raising your neck hair that it enters at once into our ideas of who we are and who we might be
So wide-ranging, dexterous and consistently capable of raising your neck hair that it enters at once into our ideas of who we are and who we might be * New York Times Book Review *
I laughed and laughed and couldn’t stop reading… Sherman Alexie is simply one of the best new writers we have – Leslie Marmon Silko
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. * The Chicago Tribune *
About The Author
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian, is the author of several books of poetry, including I Would Steal Horses, Old Shirts & New Skins, First Indian on the Moon and The Summer of Black Widows, and a volume of poetry and prose called The Business of Fancydancing.
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