Bibliograph

Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven, Sherman Alexie

Type

Label

Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven, Sherman Alexie

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Sherman Alexie

Summary

The twentieth anniversary edition of Sherman Alexie's iconic short story collection-featuring a new prologue from the author 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 Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven received a Special Citation for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction, and was the basis for the acclaimed 1998 feature film Smoke Signals. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author's personal collection

Target audience

adult

Classification