Ten little Indians : stories
Record details
- ISBN: 080214117X
- ISBN: 9780802141170
- ISBN: 0802117449
- ISBN: 9780802117441
- ISBN: 0802117449
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Physical Description:
243 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, [2003]
- Copyright: ©2003
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | The search engine -- Lawyer's League -- Can I get a witness? -- Do not go gentle -- Flight patterns -- The life and times of Estelle Walks Above -- Do you know where I am? -- What you pawn I will redeem -- What ever happened to Frank Snake Church? |
Summary, etc.: | "Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and popular writers today. Now, 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. When she discovers the poetry of a fellow Native who vanished thirty years earlier after winning the Pulitzer Prize, she makes it her mission to find him. Although he does not prove to be the man Corliss needs him to be, his devastating story will help her in her own struggle to belong. 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, now a grown man who looks back at his life with equal parts fondness, amusement, and regret. In "Do You Know Where I Am?" two college sweethearts rescue a lost cat--a simple act that has profound moral consequences for the rest of their lives together. In "What You Pawn I Will Redeem," a homeless Indian man must raise $1,000 in twenty-four hours to buy back the fancy dance outfit stolen from his grandmother fifty years earlier. Even as they often make us laugh, Sherman Alexie's stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candor that cut to the heart of the human experience. The result is a short-story collection that has been hailed as Alexie's "best in years" (Austin American-Statesman) and "proves once again that he is a fearless writer"(Rocky Mountain News)."--Publisher's description. |
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Subject: | Indians of North America Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction |
Genre: | Short stories. Short stories. |
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- 7 of 7 copies available at Bibliomation.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Ansonia Public Library | FIC ALEXIE, SHERMAN (Text) | 34045096343707 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | FIC ALE (Text) | 33430000292680 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | FICTION ALEXIE (Text) | 32518096427052 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Lyman Memorial High School | SC ALE (Text) | 33431000235139 | Short Stories | Available | - |
Ridgefield Library | F ALEXIE (Text) | 34010096947949 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Silas Bronson Library - Waterbury | S SHSTOR FIC ALEXIE, S (Text) | 34005095508213 | Storage | Available | - |
Tolland Public Library | F ALE (Text) | 34051096615185 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |