The Lone-Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
  • Published: 7 November 1997
  • ISBN: 9780749386696
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.99

The Lone-Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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Twenty-two powerful stories which balance unbearable honesty about the difficulties of life in an American Indian reservation with irrepressible passion, warmth and wit.

Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life.

In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie explores some of the major issues of our time: the pull between the urban and the rural, the future and the past; the trials and tribulations of young adulthood; the comlex density of daily life. A modern mythmaker with a sharp eye for irony, Sherman Alexie's focus is an American Indian reservation, but his playground is the world.
  • Published: 7 November 1997
  • ISBN: 9780749386696
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie is the author of Reservation Blues, Indian Killer, and The Toughest Indian in the World. His books have earned him a citation from the PEN Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction, the Before Columbus Foundation's America Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize.

Also by Sherman Alexie

Flight
Ten Little Indians
The Toughest Indian In The World
Reservation Blues
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Praise for The Lone-Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Poetic and unremittingly honest . . . The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is for the American Indian what Richard Wright’s Native Son was for the black American in 1940.

The Chicago Tribune

So wide-ranging, dexterous and consistently capable of raising your neck hair that it enters at once into our ideas of who we are and who we might be

New York Times Book Review

I laughed and laughed and couldn't stop reading... Sherman Alexie is simply one of the best new writers we have

Leslie Marmon Silko
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