About this title: 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.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780802138002ISBN:0802138004
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very light edge and corner wear. No marks. Tight binding. Appears unread. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780802138002ISBN:0802138004
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Good copy. Binding is tight, pages are clean. Cover is nice with minor edgewear and no creasing to spine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition/ First Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780802138002ISBN:0802138004
Description: N-Fine. A square solid tight carefully read copy, a collection of the author's short fiction. read more
Edition: First Edition/ First Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780802138002ISBN:0802138004
Description: N-Fine. A square solid tight carefully read copy, a collection of the author's short fiction. read more
Edition: 1st printing. Advance Reader's Edition of trade paperback ed.
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: Grove Press
Date published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780802138002ISBN:0802138004
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. book: VG w/a tiny gouge to bottom of pg.19/20. probably has not been read. book is tight w/no creases to wrappers. First edition. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 2000
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780802138002ISBN:0802138004
Description: Octavo, softcover, Advanced Reader's Edition, near fine. 238 pp, "Alexie at his most inventive and heart-rending. Although his stories taste like grief they read like heaven. An Indian himself, Alexie is the bad boy among the Indians, self-mocking, unpredictable and funny and irreverent. read more
Edition: Advanced Reading Copy.
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
Date published: 2000
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Very minor shelfwear: light smudging to right bottom corner edges of pages, otherwise as new. Uncorrected advance proof. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date published: 2001-04-09
ISBN-13:9780802138002ISBN:0802138004
Description: Good. All books in Acceptable-Good condition. Books may NOT include Online Access Codes (InfoTrac, MyEconLab). Books MAY contain highliting/bent pages. We ship M-F. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date published: 2001-04-09
ISBN-13:9780802138002ISBN:0802138004
Description: Good. Edge and corner wear. Creases to cover. Pages still clean and tight. All U.S. orders shipped with tracking number and e-mail confirmation. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Press
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780802138002ISBN:0802138004
Description: Good; Scuffs to edge of cover, wear to edges. 0802138004. 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.5 Inches; 256 pages; A beloved American writer whose books are championed by critics and readers alike, Sherman Alexie has been hailed by Time as "one of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise. " Now his acclaimed new collection, The Toughest Indian in the World, which received universal praise in hardcover, is available in paperback. In these stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature- ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Press
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780802138002ISBN:0802138004
Description: New. 0802138004 BOOK STORE NEW. Great condition. Pages are clean and white, spine has no cracks, cover is excellent, no dog ears or page marks. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Press
Date published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780802138002ISBN:0802138004
Description: Paperback Book is in Very Good condition. Clean cover, clean pages-no text markings. We ship with a bar coded label for faster delivery! read more
"um. totally love ole sherm! the book is a collection of short stories and i'm on "saint junior," which is totally beautiful and touching. the way he describes Roman and Graces relationship and the one reason they hated each other for a moment was....amazingly perfect."
"Native Americans are the greatest story tellers. Sherman Alexie is the best of the best. This is the best book of short stories that I have ever read.
One of the things I liked the most about it was that while each story carries some of the same themes of how being a Native American is ironically kind of like being a stranger in a strange land, the characters in each story are all unique and three dimensional. I liked that I was able to hear the voice of a reservation Indian telling these stories...complete with the inflections and accent inherent in their speech. I liked the marriage of the dream world, and spirit world with the physical world throughout the book. I liked the way Alexie describes each character's motivations and inner struggles.
If you have ever met an Indian from any reservation anywhere in the United States, you will SO get this book."
"I am a huge fan of "Part Time Indian", but this was disappointing. Some of the stories had Alexie's ability to combine brilliant humor with some truly heartbreaking moments, the last story One Good Man is brilliant, but many of the others are not as strong. The themes Alexie attempts to address about Native Americans in the modern world, life off the reservation, are interesting, but the quality of the writing is not Alexie's best."
"Nine short stories by Sherman Alexie. My copy says he was "selected by The New Yorker as one of the best American fiction writers under 40". He is an Indian and he writes about modern Indians living in on and off the "res" in the American North West.
Each story is quite different - from startling to moving. (And in my view, the editor chose to put the startling ones first..)
I quite enjoy reading about people and ideas I have not encountered, and while I only give it 3 stars, it was a quick read and very worth while."
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