Alexie, Sherman.

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.

Special Reader’s Edition. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993. 15 x 23cm. (10), 223 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, as new.

Known primarily as a poet, Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian, here offers 22 extremely fine short stories, all set on or around the Spokane reservation in Washington state. Characters flow from one tale to the next; many involve Victor, who grows from a small child watching relatives fight during a New Year’s Eve party to a dissolute man sitting on his broken-down porch with a friend, watching life pass him by. The author depicts with fierce determination all the elements of modern Native American life, from basketball and alcoholism to powwows and the unexplained deaths of insignificant people. Humor and tragedy exist side by side, and stories often jump back and forth in time and space, recounting two narratives that ultimately prove to be skeins of the same tale. Alexie writes with simplicity and forthrightness, allowing the power in his stories to creep up slowly on the reader. He captures the reservation’s strong sense of community and attitude of hope tinged with realism as its inhabitants determine to persevere despite the odds. [From Publishers Weekly]

• Keywords: American Authors · American Indians · American Literature · Fiction · Literature · Short Stories
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780871135483
• Inventory Number: 91273AB

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