Sherman Alexie Books

Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage. In these comfort-zone-destroying tales, including the masterpiece, War Dances, characters grapple with racism, damaging stereotypes, poverty, alcoholism, diabetes, and the tragic loss of languages and customs. Questions of authenticity and identity abound.

In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who tells his stories long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationary that reads "From the Death Bed of Jimmy Many Horses III," even though he actually writes then on his kitchen table. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and mostly poetically between modern Indians and the traditions of the past.

These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs-- and even that most capricious of animals, humans.

A collection of short fiction reflecting the experience of Native Americans caught in the midst of personal and cultural turmoil. Includes such works as The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above, What You Pawn I will Redeem, and Do You Know Where I am?

Arnold „Junior“ Spirit, 14 Jahre alt, intelligent, witzig und selbsternannter „retard“ will etwas aus seinem Leben machen. Als Bewohner eines Indianerreservats wäre es allerdings sehr, sehr ungewöhnlich, wenn es ihm gelingen würde. Er entscheidet sich also, sein Leben zu ändern, indem er die Schule wechselt. Seine neue Schule ist voller erfolgreicher weißer Kids, dessen Jungs ihn erst mal alle zusammenschlagen wollen. Aber Arnold wehrt sich, und außerdem entdeckt er ein Talent für Basketball... und für Mädchen... Abiturempfehlung zu den Themebereichen Growing up und Native Americans

This collection of stories delves into the delicate interplay between self-preservation and the responsibilities we hold towards art, family, and society. With a blend of heartbreak and humor, the author reflects on personal and universal themes, offering insights into the complexities of life and the human experience.

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 -- the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in the world. A Spokane son waits for his diabetic father to come home from the hospital, tossing out the Hershey Kisses the father has hidden all over the house. An estranged interracial couple, separated in the midst of a traffic accident, rediscover their love for each other. A white drifter holds up an International House of Pancakes, demanding a dollar per customer and someone to love, and emerges with $42 and an overweight Indian he dubs Salmon Boy. Sherman Alexie's voice is one of remarkable passion, and these stories are love stories -- between parents and children, white people and Indians, movie stars and ordinary people. Witty, tender, and fierce, The Toughest Indian in the World is a virtuoso performance by one of the country's finest writers.

Sherman Alexie is hailed as "one of the major lyric voices of our time" by the New York Times Book Review, which recognized his work as a "1992 Notable Book of the Year." His poetry collections include Old Shirts & New Skins, The Summer of Black Widows, and One Stick Song. Named one of "20 Writers for the 21st Century" by The New Yorker, Alexie won the World Heavyweight Championship Poetry Bout at the Taos Poetry Circus for three consecutive years, a first in the event's history. His screenplay, Smoke Signals, based on his book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, marked a milestone as the first feature film produced, written, and directed by American Indians. Premiering at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, it won both the Audience Award and Filmmakers Trophy, and received a Christopher Award in 1999 for affirming the highest human values. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, published in 1994, was a citation winner for the PEN/Hemmingway Award for Best First Fiction. Other notable works include Reservation Blues, Indian Killer, and The Toughest Indian in The World. A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian from Wellpinit, Washington, Alexie currently resides in Seattle with his family, working on new poems and stories.

Sherman Alexie, a master storyteller, presents a poignant and humorous narrative in his first novel in a decade, focusing on an orphaned Indian boy's quest for identity. The tale follows a troubled foster teenager, who struggles with his status as a "non-legal" Indian due to his father's absence. As he contemplates committing a violent act, he is unexpectedly transported through time, beginning with the civil rights era as an FBI agent, where he witnesses the harsh realities of racism in Red River, Idaho. This journey continues as he inhabits the body of an Indian child at the Battle of Little Bighorn and later as a 19th-century Indian tracker, ultimately landing in the present as an airline pilot. Throughout these experiences, he grapples with profound questions about humanity, reflected in his repeated thoughts: "Who's to judge?" and "I don't understand humans." By the end of his transformative journey, he returns to his own life, deeply changed by his encounters. Alexie's narrative is both heart-wrenching and humorous, exploring the roots of human hatred while showcasing his unique voice. Time Out describes this work as a modern-day vision quest, highlighting Alexie's fearless and groundbreaking storytelling.

Sherman Alexie has been hailes as "one of the best writers we have" (The Nation). Reservation Blues is his "irresistibly stunning debut novel" (San Fransisco Chronicle). One day legendary bluesman Robert Johnson appears on the Spokane Indian reservation, in flight from the devil and presumed long dead. When he passes his enchated instruments to Thomas-Builds-the-Fire - storyteller, misfit, and musician - a magical odyssey begins that will take them from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. This fresh, luxuriantly comic tale of power, tragedy, and redemption among contemporary Native Americans