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Ten Little Indians |
Author(s): Alexie, Sherman |
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List Price: $15.00 |
Format: Paperback (Trade Paper) |
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Imprint: Grove Press |
ISBN: 080214117X or 9780802141170 |
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| Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and po ... |
 | Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and popular writers today. With Ten Little Indians, he offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love. In Alexie’s first story, “The Search Engine,” Corliss is a rugged and resourceful student who finds in books the magic she was denied while growing up poor. In “The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above,” an intellectual feminist Spokane Indian woman saves the lives of dozens of white women all around her to the bewilderment of her only child. “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” starts off with a homeless man recognizing in a pawn shop window the fancy-dance regalia that was stolen fifty years earlier from his late grandmother. Even as they often make us laugh, Alexie’s stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candor that cut to the heart of the human experience, shedding brilliant light on what happens when we grow into and out of each other.>hr< In [Alexie’s] warm, revealing, invitingly roundabout stories, the central figures come in all shapes and sizes, sharing only their wry perspective on Indian life off the reservation. . . . They are affectionate tales of dealings between men and women.”Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Alexie’s Ten Little Indians serves up nine seamless stories formed in the gut and delivered from the heart, depicting Native Americans caught in contemporary cultural crosshairs.”Lauren Slater, Elle
Alexie has always been a master of the short story. . . . In [Ten Little Indians]Alexie blends humor, biting sarcasm and emotion, varying the book’s mood and presenting a spectrum of voices.”Deirdre Donahue, USA Today
This is a stellar collection of full-hearted, energetic stories.” Arion Berger, People Magazine
With wicked humor and a piercing eye, Alexie dances liehely across America’s racial and historical divides. Not since Langston Hughes’s classic collection The Ways of White Folks have these rifts been so wonderfully minded as they are in Ten Little Indians. . . . This is an inspired collection . . . told with a bittersweet and irrepressible touch. . . . Alexie, like his characters, is on a modern-day vsion quest, and his powers are only getting stronger.” Anderson Tepper, Time Out New York
Alexie’s language has energy; his dialogue is both sharp and believable. His characters are ordinary people, extraordinary in their own unique ways.” Karen Joy Fowler, The Washington Post Book World
The stories are wide, expansive, and focus on the lives of Spokane Indians inside Seattle for the most part, many of whom are aspiring to nothing less than greatness. . . . The haunting and powerful fictions of Ten Little Indians deserve to be read, contemplated, and savored.” William J. Cobb, The Houston Chronicle
[Alexie’s] stories, rambunctious and exuberant, bristle with an edgy and mordant humor all his own.” Robin Hemley, The Chicago Tribune
The subjects of these nine stories are passionate in their odd pursuits. Alexie, who wrote the 1998 film Smoke Signals, is an established chronicler of the rituals and ruptures of modern Native American life, but his eye for hard truths transcends any ethnic pigeonholing.” Emily Mead, Entertainment Weekly
Ten Little Indians deals with a lot of things nobody talks about, from the always loaded subject of cultural authenticity to the influence of politics on everyday life.” David L. Ulin, The Los Angeles Times
Alexie paints a full range of human emotions and conditions on a canvas he knows well. . . . Alexie’s nine little worlds contain a quietly glorious literary excellence; each is as pleasing to the mind and the heartand even the sensesas witnessing the perfection of nature. . . . Neither precious nor academic, Ten Little Indians is a must-read for anyone who desires searing, sad, funny and modern tales of American Indian culture, for readers who love beautifully crafted short fiction and for readers who appreciate both.” Scott Lax, The Cleveland Plain Dealer
This humor-laced passel of tales is [Alexie’s] best in years. . . . Read and enjoy Alexie’s skill at crafting characters.” Sharyn Wizda Vane, The Austin American-Statesman
Sherman Alexie’s nine well-received stories about American Indian protagonists are energized by the tension between traditional ways and life off the reservation, by trying to decide what to carry and what can be left behind yet still remain oneself in a shifting world.” Dallas Morning News
Sherman Alexie’s new collection of stories, Ten Little Indians, proves once again that he is an absolutely fearless writer.” Jenny Shank, Rocky Mountain News
The nine stories in Ten Little Indians
are poignant without being sentimental, witty without being brittle, and written with force and clarity. They’re funny, too.” Diane Roberts, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Kindness is as much a theme in Ten Little Indians as its city settings and its humor in the face of tragedy. Alexie treats both Spokane and non-Spokane characters with extraordinary measures of kindness. Characters are redeemed or not redeemed but always treated with generosity. Despite the sadness achingly present in these stories, the reader is left with a sense of healing and hope.” Karen M. Poremski, The Columbus Dispatch
This balance between poetic desire and the hopeless harshness of life is what makes Alexie’s work unique. That painful process of reclaiming something good, something of the spirit, something intensely personal, told with humor and no false sentiment, runs through much of this fine collection.” Richard Wallace, The Seattle Times
Alexie is having such a good time, we can have one too.” Michael Harris, The Los Angeles Times Book Review
Alexie’s literary voice is distinctive, idiosyncratic, and disarmingly compelling. . . . What unites [the characters] is their deeply conflicted sensibility; perceptive about many things, but often clueless about their own motives; cynical about the world and their place in it but often sentimental and dee |
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Absolutely True Diary - 10 Copy Prepack (Carton of 10 Autographed Copies); by Alexie, Sherman; little, brown books for young readers, Little, Brown Young Readers |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; by Alexie, Sherman; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; by Alexie, Sherman; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (10th Anniversary Edition); by Alexie, Sherman; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (10th Anniversary Edition); by Alexie, Sherman; Hachette Audio, Little, Brown Young Readers |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (10th Anniversary Edition) Signed 5c Solid Counter Displ; by Alexie, Sherman; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (10th Anniversary Edition) Signed 5c Solid Counter Displ; by Alexie, Sherman; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
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Blasphemy; by Alexie, Sherman; Grove/Atlantic, Inc., Grove Press |
Blasphemy; by Alexie, Sherman; Grove/Atlantic, Inc., Grove Press |
The Business of Fancydancing; by Alexie, Sherman; Hanging Loose Press, Hanging Loose Press |
The Business of Fancydancing; by Alexie, Sherman; Hanging Loose Press, Hanging Loose Press |
The Business of Fancydancing: The Screenplay; by Alexie, Sherman; Hanging Loose Press, Hanging Loose Press |
The Business of Fancydancing: The Screenplay; by Alexie, Sherman; Hanging Loose Press, Hanging Loose Press |
Face; by Alexie, Sherman; Hanging Loose Press, Hanging Loose Press |
Face; by Alexie, Sherman; Hanging Loose Press, Hanging Loose Press |
First Indian on the Moon; by Alexie, Sherman; Hanging Loose Press, Hanging Loose Press |
First Indian on the Moon; by Alexie, Sherman; Hanging Loose Press, Hanging Loose Press |
Flight; by Alexie, Sherman; Grove/Atlantic, Inc., Grove Press, Black Cat |
Indian Killer; by Alexie, Sherman; Grove/Atlantic, Inc., Grove Press |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven; by Alexie, Sherman; Grove/Atlantic, Inc., Grove Press |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (20th Anniversary Edition); by Alexie, Sherman; Grove/Atlantic, Inc., Grove Press |
Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfighting; by Alexie, Sherman; Random House UK, Minerva |
Old Shirts & New Skins; by Alexie, Sherman; UCLA American Indian Studies Center, UCLA American Indian Studies Center |
One Stick Song; by Alexie, Sherman; Hanging Loose Press, Hanging Loose Press |
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Smoke Signals; by Alexie, Sherman; University Of Minnesota Press, Univ Of Minnesota Press |
The Summer of Black Widows; by Alexie, Sherman; Hanging Loose Press, Hanging Loose Press |
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Thunder Boy Jr.; by Alexie, Sherman; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
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Thunder Boy Jr. 8c Solid Floor Display CTB; by Alexie, Sherman; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
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War Dances; by Alexie, Sherman; Grove/Atlantic, Inc., Grove Press |
War Dances; by Alexie, Sherman; Grove/Atlantic, Inc., Grove Press |
What I've Stolen, What I've Earned; by Alexie, Sherman; Hanging Loose Press, Hanging Loose Press |
What I've Stolen, What I've Earned; by Alexie, Sherman; Hanging Loose Press, Hanging Loose Press |
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me; by Alexie, Sherman; Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown and Company |
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me; by Alexie, Sherman; Hachette Audio, Little, Brown & Company |
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