Summary
The hilarious and tragic portrait of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity.
Flight follows this troubled foster teenager—a boy who is not a ‘legal’ Indian because he was never claimed by his father—as he learns that violence is not the answer.
The journey for Flight’s young hero begins as he’s about to commit a massive act of violence. At the moment of the decision, he finds himself shot back …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846551529 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846551528 |
| Author: | Sherman Alexie |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Harvill Secker |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2008 |
| Weight: | 196g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 15mm |
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Mr. Alexie manages to move effortlessly in and out of centuries like a person moving between waking and sleep… Right up to the novel’s final sentence, Mr. Alexie succeeds yet again with his ability to pierce to the heart of matters, leaving this reader with tears in her eyes * New York Times *
A funny, irreverent, sardonic but sentimental, rebellious voice set beside his elder…contemporaries…Alexie is the bad boy among them, mocking, self-mocking, unpredictable, unassimilable, reminding us of the young Philip Roth – Joyce Carol Oates * New York Review of Books *
About The Author
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie is the author of Reservation Blues, Indian Killer, The Toughest Indian in the World, and Ten Little Indians. He wrote and directed The Business of Fancy-dancing and also wrote the award-winning screenplay for Smoke Signals, a film based on his short-story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. He has been nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the American Book Award.
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