The Lone-Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

The Lone-Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

by ShermanAlexie (Author)

Synopsis

Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie explores some of the major issues of our time: the pull between the urban and the rural, the future and the past; the trials and tribulations of young adulthood; the comlex density of daily life. A modern mythmaker with a sharp eye for irony, Sherman Alexie's focus is an American Indian reservation, but his playground is the world.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11 Sep 1997

ISBN 10: 074938669X
ISBN 13: 9780749386696
Book Overview: Twenty-two powerful stories which balance unbearable honesty about the difficulties of life in an American Indian reservation with irrepressible passion, warmth and wit.

Media Reviews
So wide-ranging, dexterous and consistently capable of raising your neck hair that it enters at once into our ideas of who we are and who we might be * New York Times Book Review *
I laughed and laughed and couldn't stop reading... Sherman Alexie is simply one of the best new writers we have -- Leslie Marmon Silko
Poetic and unremittingly honest . . . 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 Chicago Tribune *
Author Bio
Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, is the author of several books of poetry, including I Would Steal Horses, Old Shirts & New Skins, First Indian on the Moon and The Summer of Black Widows, and a volume of poetry and prose called The Business of Fancydancing.