The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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FICTION "Poetic [and] unremittingly hor\eet The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fietffght In Heaven ie for the American Indian what Richard Wright's Native Son was for the black American in 1940." -Chicago Tribune In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane! Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly \ron\c portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and goverrjment-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep, Thomas Ekiilds-the-Fire, who tells his stories, long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationery that reads "From the Death bed of James Many Horses III," even... Tovább

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FICTION "Poetic [and] unremittingly hor\eet The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fietffght In Heaven ie for the American Indian what Richard Wright's Native Son was for the black American in 1940." -Chicago Tribune In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane! Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly \ron\c portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and goverrjment-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep, Thomas Ekiilds-the-Fire, who tells his stories, long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationery that reads "From the Death bed of James Many Horses III," even though he actually writes them on his kitchen table. 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, between modern Indians and the traditions of the past. "Again and again, Alexia's prose startles and dazzles with unexpected, impossible-to~anticipate moves. With this stunning collection, Sherman Alexie has become quite clearly an important new voice in American literature." -doeton G\obe Vissza