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Alexie Sherman
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Collector's Edition
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The book that launched Sherman Alexie onto the YA market is now available in a deluxe collector's edition! Beautifully designed with a gifty new look that includes a foil-stamped, die-cut slipcase and 4-color interior art, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike. In his nationally acclaimed, semi-autobiographical YA debut, author Sherman Alexie tells the heartbreaking, hilarious, and beautifully written story of a young Native American teen as he attempts to break free from the life he was destined to live.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
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When it was first published in 1993, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established Sherman Alexie as a stunning new talent of American letters. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, it remains one of his most beloved and widely praised books. In this darkly comic collection, Alexie brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and, most poetically, modern Indians and the traditions of the past.
The Business of Fancydancing
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Sherman Alexie's first book. James R. Kincaid called Alexie "one of the major lyric voices of our time" in the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW after reading this book. Prose and poetry.
Sherman Alexie's first book. James R. Kincaid called Alexie "one of the major lyric voices of our time" in the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW after reading this book. Prose and poetry.
Flight: A Novel
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The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his first novel in ten years, a powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster teenager a boy who is not a legal” Indian because he was never claimed by his father who learns the true meaning of terror. About to commit a devastating act, the young man finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He resurfaces in the form of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, inhabits the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, and then rides with an Indian tracker in the 19th Century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to rest again in his own contemporary body, he is mightily transformed by all he’s seen. This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant making us laugh while breaking our hearts. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and again, groundbreaking Alexie.
War Dances
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In his first new fiction since winning the National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, best-selling author Sherman Alexie delivers a virtuoso collection of tender, witty, and soulful stories that expertly capture modern relationships from the most diverse angles. War Dances brims with Alexie’s poetic and revolutionary prose, and reminds us once again why he ranks as one of our country’s finest writers.
With bright insight into the minds of artists, entrepreneurs, fathers, husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with average men on the brink of exceptional change: In the title story, a son recalls his father’s natural Indian death” from alcohol and diabetes, just as he learns that he himself may have a brain tumor; The Ballad of Paul Nonetheless,” dissects a vintage clothing store owner’s failing marriage and courtship of a Puma-clad stranger in airports across the country; and Breaking and Entering” recounts a film editor’s fateful confrontation with an thieving adolescent.
Brazen and wise War Dances takes us to the heart of what it means to be human. The new beginnings, successes, mistakes, and regrets that make up our daily lives are laid bare in this wide-ranging new work that is quintessential
Reservation Blues
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- Conqueror of the Murray Morgan Prize
- Conqueror of American Book Ward
- "An Notable voice in American literature" - The Boston Globe
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Sherman Alexie has been hailed as one of the best writers we have” (The Nation). Reservation Blues is his irresistibly stunning debut novel” (San Francisco Chronicle). One day legendary bluesman Robert Johnson appears on the Spokane Indian reservation, in flight from the devil and presumed long dead. When he passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas-Builds-the-Firestoryteller, misfit, and musiciana magical odyssey begins that will take them from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. This is a fresh, luxuriantly comic tale of power, tragedy, and redemption among contemporary Native Americans.
Alexie Sherman News
Picking books for a sunny day - South Coast Today
South Coast Today, MA - May 23, 2009
Picking books for a sunny dayI've read two great young adult books recently that I urge you to read: "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," by Sherman Alexie, and "Coraline," by Neil Gaiman. "True Diary" is the only book I've ever read that gives an accurate,
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After years of courtship, Redford commits to NM - Product Design & Development
Product Design & Development, NJ - May 25, 2009
After years of courtship, Redford commits to NMThe drought ended when writer Sherman Alexie and director Chris Eyre arrived with "Smoke Signals," which was developed at Sundance and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. Now, the Native American program has taken off and attracts
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Bradford connects with tribe - Tulsa World
Tulsa World, OK - May 11, 2009
Bradford connects with tribeBy ERIC BAILEY World Sports Writer But do they know who Sherman Alexie is? If you're Native American and have no idea, you are missing out on our generation's best Indian storyteller. A critically acclaimed author, Alexie is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene
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Writing the Future Depression - mediabistro.com
mediabistro.com, NY - May 20, 2009
mediabistro.comWriting the Future DepressionThis month's Harper's magazine features short science fiction from Colson Whitehead, Jamaica Kincaid, Sherman Alexie and other writers--ten authors pondering "My Great Depression." All the stories imagine what life will be like if the economic
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Nothing shy about this guy - National Post
National Post, Canada - May 19, 2009
Nothing shy about this guySherman Alexie, an abrasive, funny American Indian writer (he prefers being an Indian to a Native American), doesn't need to go far from his own backyard in Seattle to illustrate sharp differences separating white from Indian opinion.
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