Irony, grim humor, and forgiveness help characters transcend pain, anger and loss. “Lyrically beautiful and almost always very funny. Alexie writes with simplicity and forthrightness, allowing the power in his stories to creep up slowly on the reader.” - Publishers Weekly
Alexie is a visionary and by far the best writer I’ve seen published in recent years.” - Talk of the Town (Washington) His tales include all the ingredients of contemporary American Indian life: humor, heartbreak, and humanity.” - Willamette Week “A compelling and impressive collection.” - The Washington Times In Sherman Alexie’s voice we hear the voice of a people asking questions we cannot answer or avoid.” - The Bloomsbury Review “Alexie blends an almost despairing social realism with jolting flashes of visionary fantasy and a quirky sense of gallows humor.
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. Now with two new stories and an introduction from Alexie, these twenty-four interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet filled with passion and affection, myth and charm. There is Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the storyteller who no one seems to listen to, and his compatriot-and sometimes not-so-great friend-Victor, the basketball hero who turned into a recovering alcoholic.
Vividly weaving memory, fantasy, and stark reality to paint a portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian reservation, this book introduces some of Alexie’s most beloved characters who inhabit his distinctive landscape. Sherman Alexie’s critically celebrated first collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established its author as one of America’s most important and provocative voices.
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The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, it remains one of his most beloved and widely praised books. 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.