The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven: Stories

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven: Stories

<b>Sherman Alexie’s darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation. </b><br /><br /> The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut collection—an instant classic—paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where “Survival = Anger x Imagination,” where HUD houses and generations of privation intertwine with history, passion, and myth.<br />  <br /> We follow Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the longwinded storyteller no one really listens to; his half-hearted nemesis, Victor, the basketball star turned recovering alcoholic; and a wide cast of other vividly drawn characters on a haunting journey filled with humor and sorrow, resilience and resignation, dreams and reality. Alexie’s unadulterated honesty and boundless compassion come together in a poetic vision of a world in which the gaps between past and present are not really gaps after all.<br />  <br /> The basis for the acclaimed 1998 feature film <i>Smoke Signals</i>,the <i>Chicago Tribune</i> noted, “<i>The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven</i> . . . is for the American Indian what Richard Wright’s <i>Native Son</i> was for the black American in 1940.”<br />  <br /> The collection received a Special Citation for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction.<br />  <br /> This ebook edition features a new prologue from the author, as well as an illustrated biography and rare photos from Sherman Alexie’s personal collection.<br />