Based on the authors own experiences, this first young adult novel by bestselling author Alexie features poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney that reflect the characters art as it chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy attempting to break away from the life he was destined to live.
In this magical tale, Robert Johnson, a blues musician who was murdered on August 16, 1938, appears on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets the misfit storyteller of the tribe, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who assists him on his mythical journey.
While a young man of Indian origin--who was reared in an adopted white family--descends into madness in Seattle, a serial killer scalps and kills white men, earning the name "Indian Killer."
Alexie's sexy, darkly comic stories portray a varied collection of Native American characters in late 20th-century America as flawed, angry, yearning, confused individuals.
Set in Arizona, Smoke Signals is the story of two Native American boys on a journey. Victor is the stoic, handsome son of an alcoholic father who has abandoned his family. Thomas is a gregarious, goofy young man who lost both his parents in a fire at a very young age. Through storytelling, Thomas makes every effort to connect with the people ...
A gifted and accomplished storyteller returns with a powerful and timely novel of a troubled foster teenager. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, "Flight" is irrepressible, fearless, and groundbreaking.
Like most of Alexie's fiction, the stories in TEN LITTLE INDIANS are mostly about Native Americans--in this case, many of them members of the Spokane tribe--who ponder what it means to be an Indian in today's world.
Through poetry we tell the world who we are, where we're from, what we love, what we think, how we feel, and why we hope. "Tell the World" is a stunning collection of poems by teens who have taken part in workshops run by WritersCorps, a national alliance of literary arts programs for youth. Their words represent the thoughts, hopes, and dreams of ...
"A young writer who is taking the literary world by storm...a superb chronicler of the Native American experience..an overwhelmingly exciting voice...he is a master of language, writing beautifully, unsparingly and straight to the heart.: -- Chris Faatz, The Nation "There is enough love, heartbreak, and ironic intelligence in this small book to ...
In these stories, we meet the kinds of American Indians we rarely see in literature - the upper and middle class, the professionals and white-collar workers, the bureaucrats and poets, falling in and out of love and wondering if they will make their way home.
"Flight" follows this troubled foster teenager - a boy who is not a 'legal' Indian because he was never claimed by his father - as he learns that violence is not the answer. The journey for "Flight"'s young hero begins as he's about to commit a massive act of violence. At the moment of the decision, he finds himself shot back through time to ...
Ernie is an alcoholic stage magician haunted by lost love and his brother's suicide, and he's hooked up with his senile mentor in one last effort to sort his life out. But Ernie needs to keep Flosso the Magnificent with him in the present and by his side to guide Ernie through these difficult days. These two magicians have run out of escape tricks ...
A follow-up to the critically acclaimed and bestselling multicultural collection of stories about growing up in America--with new selections for a new century. ""All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable, and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence. Self ...
In 1992, Hanging Loose Press introduced the poetry of Sherman Alexie. His first collection, The Business of Fancydancing, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. "Mr. Alexie's is one of the major lyric voices of our time, " wrote reviewer James R. Kincaid. Since then, Alexie's poems, stories and novels have brought him many ...
Ellen Forney's guide to alternative experiences, with cameos by Camille Paglia, Kristin Gore, Margaret Cho, and others. ""Ellen Forney's comics are smart. Ellen Forney's comics are sexy. Ellen Forney's comics are funny. Ellen Forney's comics are hotter than five-star curry."" --Sherman Alexie (from his Introduction) "I Love Led Zeppelin" is a ...
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