The Lone-Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
$24.07
- 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 adultho…
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: | 14mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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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 *
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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