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Sherman Alexie
Tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This book features poignant drawings that reflect…
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Percival Everett
"While holidaying in Colorado, a black engineer is drawn into a conflict between FBI agents and Indian environmentalists over toxic dumping. For Robert Hawks history is repeating itself, as a…
Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) gained national attention upon release of The Business of Fancydancing, his first collection of poems, in 1992. In Conversations with Sherman Alexie, the writer displays the…
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Daniel Grassian
Drawing comparisons with such established Native American writers as N. Scott Momaday and James Welch as well as with Generation X peers, Grassian presents Alexie’s work as equally informed by…
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A collection of stories about love - between parents and children; white people and Indians; movie stars and ordinary people. The stories tell of Indians - upper and middle class…
In this bestselling winner of the American Book Award, the life of Spokane Indian Thomas Builds-the-Fire irrevocably changes when blues legend Robert Johnson miraculously appears on his reservation and passes…
A New York Times Notable Book and a national bestseller, Indian Killer is arguably Alexies most controversial book to date–a riveting, gritty, racially charged literary thriller that, over a decade…
As he’s about to commit a massive act of violence, he finds himself shot back through time to resurface in the body of an FBI agent during the civil rights…
New recording with extra content. Sherman Alexie, in his first book for young adults, tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined…
Fresh off his National Book Award win, Alexie delivers a heartbreaking and hilarious collection of stories that explores the precarious balance between self-preservation and external responsibility in art, family, and…
The ultimate collection from the most famous Native American fiction writer. Fifteen new stories and fifteen selected favourites from Alexie’s acclaimed collections, beginning with his groundbreaking debut, The Lone Ranger…
Presents a literary memoir of poems, essays, and intimate family photos that reflect on the author’s complicated relationship with his mother and his disadvantaged childhood on a Native American reservation.
Even as they often make readers laugh, Alexie’s stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candor that cut to the heart of the human experience. The result is…
A mythical and musical tale by the author of the short-story collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven . The novel is about an American Indian, Catholic rock-and-roll…
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Alexie’s prose startles and dazzles with unexpected, impossible-to-anticipate moves. These are cultural love stories, and we laugh on every page with a fist tight around our hearts. –The Boston Globe…
Sherman Alexie offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant stories about Native Americans who find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads. In The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above, an…
Weaves characters, themes and language in 22 linked stories that evoke the complex density of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. The author is one of Granta’s 20…
Alexie’s National Book Award winner chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he thought he was destined to live…
This anniversary edition of Alexie’s National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times-bestselling semi-autobiographical novel includes a new Foreword, Author’s Note, an excerpt of a sequel from the character Rowdy’s…
A bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the daring, versatile, funny, and outrageous Alexie showcases all his talents in his newest collection, Blasphemy…
This acclaimed collection of stories presents the kind of native American rarely seen in literature–one portrayed without stereotypes–who pays his bills, holds down jobs, and falls in and out of…
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…
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…
Drama. Native American Studies. One of the most vital of the younger writers. Watch this guy. He’s making myth–Joy Harjo. Displays a mastery of language, a breadth of vision, and…
Poetry. Fiction. Native American Studies. In this first full collection in nine years, Alexie’s poems and prose show his celebrated passion and wit while also exploring new directions. Novelist, storyteller…
Poetry. Native American Studies. FIRST INDIAN ON THE MOON opens with the section Influences: where I have been/ most of my lives/ is where I’m going/–Lucille Clifton. The stories and…
Poetry. Native American Studies. Whether slyly identifying irony as a white man’s invention, or deftly moving from prose-like multilayered narratives to formal poetry and song structures, this fifth collection from…
One of the most vital of the younger writers…Watch this guy. He’s making myth. – Joy Harjo. The high spirit of Crazy Horse…is alive in this book and dances powerfully…
Poetry. Native American Studies. THE SUMMER OF BLACK WIDOWS presents poetry that has continued to grow in power, complexity, and vision. According to reviewer James R. Kincaid, Mr. Alexie’s is…
Poetry. Native American Studies. One of the major lyric voices of our time (NY Times Book Review), winner of the National Book Award, Alexie publishes his first new collection of…
Poetry. Fiction. Published in 1992, well before Sherman Alexie became well-known as the screenwriter for the film SMOKE SIGNALS, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING has now been turned into a film…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Kathrin Insupp
The main fields of study that are addressed in this book are intercultural learning, literature didactics, and the deconstruction of the Native American stereotype. The book’s first part offers worthwhile…
A Study Guide for Sherman Alexie’s Defending Walt Whitman, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Sherman Alexie’s Powwow at the End of the World, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…
A Study Guide for Sherman Alexie’s What You Pawn I Will Redeem, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literary Themes for Students: Race and Prejudice. This concise study guide includes plot summary…
Melissa Naase
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Paderborn (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Native American Literature, language: English, abstract: American Indian…
A Study Guide for Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis…
A Study Guide for Sherman Alexie’s This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary…
