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A mixed-bag collection of nine stories from the popular American (Spokane Coeur dAlene) Indian author of such breakthrough successes as The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993) and Reservation Blues (1995).Alexie has been known to scorn the politically correct contemporary appellation Native American, and this volume rather overindulges what appears to be its authors sardonic reaction to his own celebrity and perceived exoticism (Strangely enough, observes the Sherman Alexielike narrator of the bitterly funny Class, there were aphrodisiacal benefits from claiming to be descended from ritual cannibals). A few of these tales feel like understandably unpublished early work (South by Southwest, a flagrantly manic farce that laboriously satirizes white liberal guilt, and Indian Country, about a successful writers cultural and sexual alienation, are especially suspect). Even at his best, Alexie doesnt construct; he riffs: to splendid effect in The Sin Eaters, a rich fantasy of ethnic conflict, incest, and genocide laden with vivid literary and biblical allusions and eye-popping metaphors (Theyre going to take the tomorrow out of our bones); Dear John Wayne, a cultural anthropologists interview with the aged Indian woman who claims she was the eponymous screen stars lover (during the filming of The Searchers); and Saint Junior, a mischievous lampooning of affirmative-action programs. Alexie digs still deeper in rock-hard portrayals of a volatile mixed married couple (Assimilation); a son preparing to bid his dying father farewell (One Good Man); and the surprise-filled title story, about an Indian intellectual who has strayed uncomfortably away from his origins, and is reconnected with them after he picks up a menacing hitchhiker.Alexie knows hes contemporary literatures Indian du jour (a phrase he has often used), and isnt quite sure how he feels about it. That ambivalence gives his writing a salutary charge of energy, making him one of our most challenging, interesting, and promising young writers. (Kirkus Reviews)
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In these stories, we meet the kinds of American Indians we rarely see in literature - the upper and middle class, the professionals and white-collar workers, the bureaucrats and poets, falling in and out of love and wondering if they will make their way home.
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A mixed-bag collection of nine stories from the popular American (Spokane Coeur dAlene) Indian author of such breakthrough successes as The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993) and Reservation Blues (1995).Alexie has been known to scorn the politically correct contemporary appellation Native American, and this volume rather overindulges what appears to be its authors sardonic reaction to his own celebrity and perceived exoticism (Strangely enough, observes the Sherman Alexielike narrator of the bitterly funny Class, there were aphrodisiacal benefits from claiming to be descended from ritual cannibals). A few of these tales feel like understandably unpublished early work (South by Southwest, a flagrantly manic farce that laboriously satirizes white liberal guilt, and Indian Country, about a successful writers cultural and sexual alienation, are especially suspect). Even at his best, Alexie doesnt construct; he riffs: to splendid effect in The Sin Eaters, a rich fantasy of ethnic conflict, incest, and genocide laden with vivid literary and biblical allusions and eye-popping metaphors (Theyre going to take the tomorrow out of our bones); Dear John Wayne, a cultural anthropologists interview with the aged Indian woman who claims she was the eponymous screen stars lover (during the filming of The Searchers); and Saint Junior, a mischievous lampooning of affirmative-action programs. Alexie digs still deeper in rock-hard portrayals of a volatile mixed married couple (Assimilation); a son preparing to bid his dying father farewell (One Good Man); and the surprise-filled title story, about an Indian intellectual who has strayed uncomfortably away from his origins, and is reconnected with them after he picks up a menacing hitchhiker.Alexie knows hes contemporary literatures Indian du jour (a phrase he has often used), and isnt quite sure how he feels about it. That ambivalence gives his writing a salutary charge of energy, making him one of our most challenging, interesting, and promising young writers. (Kirkus Reviews)
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In these stories, we meet the kinds of American Indians we rarely see in literature - the upper and middle class, the professionals and white-collar workers, the bureaucrats and poets, falling in and out of love and wondering if they will make their way home.
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