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The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie.

by Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

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Grove Press, 2013, c2005.

FICTION ALE 2013

Spokane Indians -- Fiction.

Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Fiction.

Spokane Indian Reservation (Wash.) -- Fiction.

Spokane (Wash.) -- Fiction.

9780802121998 (pbk.)

Alternate title:

Lone Ranger and Tonto fist fight in heaven.

20th anniversary ed.

304 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes reading group guide.

"With a new prologue"--Cover.

Originally published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993.

Every little hurricane -- A drug called tradition -- Because my father always said he was the only Indian who saw Jimi Hendrix play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock -- Crazy Horse dreams -- Only traffic signal on the reservation doesn't flash red anymore -- Amusements -- This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona -- The fun house -- All I wanted to do was dance -- The trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire -- Distances -- Jesus Christ's half-brother is alive and well on the Spokane Indian Reservation -- A train is an order of occurrence designed to lead to some result -- A good story -- The first annual all-Indian horseshoe pitch and barbecue -- Imagining the reservation -- The approximate size of my favorite tumor -- Indian education -- The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven -- Family portrait -- Somebody kept saying powwow -- Witnesses, secret and not -- Flight -- Junior Polatkin's Wild West show.

In this darkly comic short story collection, the author brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation.

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