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Alexie, Sherman, 1966-
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Spokane Indians -- Fiction.
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Fiction.
Spokane Indian Reservation (Wash.) -- Fiction.
Spokane (Wash.) -- Fiction.
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Alexie, Sherman, 1966-
Spokane Indians -- Fiction.
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Fiction.
Spokane Indian Reservation (Wash.) -- Fiction.
Spokane (Wash.) -- Fiction.
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie.
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Alexie, Sherman, 1966-
Grove Press, 2013, c2005.
Call #:
FICTION ALE 2013
Subjects
Spokane Indians -- Fiction.
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Fiction.
Spokane Indian Reservation (Wash.) -- Fiction.
Spokane (Wash.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780802121998 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Lone Ranger and Tonto fist fight in heaven.
Edition:
20th anniversary ed.
Description:
304 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes reading group guide.
"With a new prologue"--Cover.
Originally published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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.
Genre:
Short stories.
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2
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Cole Harbour Public Library
Adult Fiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection
FICTION ALE 2013
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