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Ten Little Indians (Paperback)

by Sherman Alexie (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd (1 Jan 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0436206188
  • ISBN-13: 978-0436206184
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.4 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 209,162 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #4 in  Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > A > Alexie, Sherman
    #15 in  Books > Fiction > World > American > Native American
    #93 in  Books > Society, Politics & Philosophy > Social Sciences > Multicultural Studies > Indigenous Peoples

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Sherman Alexie, a gifted poet and storyteller, ploughs familiar yet fertile ground in Ten Little Indians, his third collection of short stories. The book contains nine stories populated by at least one American Indian (usually of Alexie's Spokane heritage, and mostly living in Seattle), but "little" is a bit of a misnomer; the book addresses human (not necessarily Indian) rituals, ceremony, love, loss, insecurity over life choices and personal sacrifices. A lot of intense basketball is played, too.

When Alexie is at his best, his stories function at a profoundly sad level, where broken down characters are broken down even more, but are fierce-willed enough to attempt Phoenix-like transitions. Unfortunately, the weakest stories appear first, where characters and situations seem far too contrived or forced, the dialogue wooden and questions or exclamatory sentences appear annoyingly in bunches. In the last half of the book, a married couple, once intensely in love but now lost in life's routines, deal with infidelity ("Do You Know Where I Am?"); a bright basketball prospect attempts a comeback, 20 years after giving up the game ("Whatever Happened to Frank Snake Church?"); and a transient Indian finds his grandmother's regalia in a pawn shop and seeks to quickly raise the lofty purchase price ("What You Pawn I Will Redeem").

Brilliant turns of phrase abound, such as ceremonies being "pitiful cries to a disinterested God," or when a gym rat plays against "Basketball-Democrats who came to the court alone and ran with anybody and Basketball-Republicans who traveled in groups of five and only ran with each other." Ten Little Indians is an uneven collection but it contains some significant and memorable stories. --Michael Ferch, Amazon.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



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Ten Little Indians offers eleven poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about native Americans.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Read it!, 8 Jan 2005
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I Brought this book on a whim, and I'm glad I did! These brilliantly written and well-observed stories have such a strong voice within all of them. Alexie seems to be able to write a Spokane 19 year old female college student to a gay wrestler with apparent ease, turning a phrase that had me laughing on the bus home from work without shame.

Interracial relationships, politics, sexism, racism and homosexuality are all written as if in passing, and flaws within American society are held up for criticism.

There really is a direct voice of cultural identity here; I am neither American or American Indian, but an outsider looking in to a writer creating characters who are all suffering from a floundering search as to what they are. And yes, it made me break my illusions of cultural stereotypes that society and media gave me (lets blame both, everyone else does)concerning the Native Americans.

Good read, whatever your sexual inclination, race or age.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and funny, 3 Dec 2008
By kalamazoo (London, England) - See all my reviews
Sherman Alexie is one of my favourite writers. These stories are moving, humorous, occasionally surreal and always humane. I didn't want to leave the company of any of the fascinating characters.
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