E-book
Blasphemy : [new and selected stories]
Record details
- ISBN: 0802194060 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780802194060 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 465 pages)
remote - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, ©2012.
- Distributor: [Berkeley, CA] : Distributed by Publishers Group West
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Cry cry cry -- Green world -- Scars -- The toughest Indian in the world -- War dances -- This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona -- Midnight basketball -- Idolatry -- Protest -- What ever happened to Frank Snake Church? -- The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven -- The approximate size of my favorite tumor -- Indian country -- Because my father always said he was the only Indian who saw Jimi Hendrix play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock -- Scenes from a life -- Breakfast -- Night people -- Breaking and entering -- Do you know where I am? -- Indian education -- Gentrification -- Fame -- Faith -- Salt -- Assimilation -- Old growth -- Emigration -- The search engine -- The vow -- Basic training -- What you pawn I will redeem. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Indigenous Peoples -- Fiction Short stories, American Indigenous Peoples Short stories, American |
| Genre: | Fiction. Short stories. Electronic books. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
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.
