The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Stories

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Publisher Description

Sherman Alexie’s darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation.

The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut collection—an instant classic—paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where “Survival = Anger x Imagination,” where HUD houses and generations of privation intertwine with history, passion, and myth.
 
We follow Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the longwinded storyteller no one really listens to; his half-hearted nemesis, Victor, the basketball star turned recovering alcoholic; and a wide cast of other vividly drawn characters on a haunting journey filled with humor and sorrow, resilience and resignation, dreams and reality. Alexie’s unadulterated honesty and boundless compassion come together in a poetic vision of a world in which the gaps between past and present are not really gaps after all.
 
The basis for the acclaimed 1998 feature film Smoke Signals,the Chicago Tribune noted, “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 collection received a Special Citation for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction.
 
This ebook edition features a new prologue from the author, as well as an illustrated biography and rare photos from Sherman Alexie’s personal collection.
 

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
October 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
242
Pages
PUBLISHER
Open Road Media
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
5.9
MB

Customer Reviews

laughingravendesign ,

One of my favorite books

I have read this book about 5 times, getting different things out of it each time. The writing in this book is just beautiful. The stories are amazing

Kmr1958 ,

First rate!

I have been forever fascinated by displace cultures. I am white. Am I to blame for the cultural disconnect that those of color experience? Maybe. Generational. Ignorant.
I worked a a halfway house for Native Americans and grew to respect their place and culture.
I could not help them. Accept to care. I am white.
This book holds so many truths so many paradoxes and so much pain. It is funny and sad. A truth that must be read.

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