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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Sherman Alexie
其他書名
Stories
出版
Open Road Media
, 2013-10-15
主題
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Fiction / Indigenous
Fiction / Cultural Heritage
Fiction / Coming of Age
ISBN
1480457167
9781480457164
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XV36AAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Sherman Alexie’s darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut collection—an instant classic—paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where “Survival = Anger x Imagination,” where HUD houses and generations of privation intertwine with history, passion, and myth.
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’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.
The basis for the acclaimed 1998 feature film
Smoke Signals
,the
Chicago Tribune
noted, “
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 collection received a Special Citation for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction.
This ebook edition features a new prologue from the author, as well as an illustrated biography and rare photos from Sherman Alexie’s personal collection.