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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9781664503199
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ISBN: 9781664611023
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ISBN: 9781664776135
| Runtime: | 4.74 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Sherman Alexie is not a finicky writer. He is often messy and in-your-face in a way that can make you laugh (or shudder) when you least expect to…War Dances is Alexie’s fiercely freewheeling collection of stories and poems about the tragicomedies of ordinary lives.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
“Alexie mixes up comedy and tragedy, shoots it through with tenderness, then delivers with a provocateur’s don’t-give-a-damn flourish.” —Seattle Times
“A paradox in [Alexie’s] writing is that you can be in the middle of delighted laughter when he will hit you with a sentence so true to the core of a character’s pain that you suck in your breath or are startled to realize you are crying.” —Globe and Mail (Toronto)
“War Dances taps every vein and nerve, every tissue, every issue that quickens the current blood-pulse: parenthood, divorce, broken links, sex, gender and racial conflict, substance abuse, medical neglect, 9/11, Official Narrative vs. What Really Happened, settler religion vs. native spirituality, marketing, shopping, and war, war, war. All the heartbreaking ways we don’t live now—this is the caring, eye-opening beauty of this rollicking, bittersweet gem of a book.” —Al Young, PEN/Faulkner Award judge
Author
Author Bio: Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie is a poet, short-story writer, novelist, and performer. He is a winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, a PEN/Hemingway Citation for Best First Fiction, and the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. A Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian, he grew up in Wellpinit, Washington, on the Spokane Indian Reservation, and has been an urban Indian since 1994.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 4.74 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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