The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.

Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480457164

<DIV><B>Sherman Alexie&rsquo;s darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation. </B><BR /><BR /> The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie&rsquo;s debut collection&mdash;an instant classic&mdash;paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where &ldquo;Survival = Anger x Imagination,&rdquo; where HUD houses and generations of privation intertwine with history, passion, and myth.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> 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&rsquo;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.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> The basis for the acclaimed 1998 feature film <I>Smoke Signals</I>,the <I>Chicago Tribune</I> noted, &ldquo;<I>The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven</I> . . . is for the American Indian what Richard Wright&rsquo;s <I>Native Son</I> was for the black American in 1940.&rdquo;<BR /> &#160;<BR /> The collection received a Special Citation for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> This ebook edition features a new prologue from the author, as well as an illustrated biography and rare photos from Sherman Alexie&rsquo;s personal collection.<BR /> &#160;</DIV>