Sherman Alexie
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his darkly comic short story collection, the author brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-four interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, yet filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents...
3) Blasphemy
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed
Physical Desc
viii, 465 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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
4) Face
Author
Publisher
Hanging Loose Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
159 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: In this first full collection in nine years, Alexie's poems and prose show his celebrated passion and wit while also exploring new directions. Novelist, storyteller and performer, he won the National Book Award for his YA novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. His work has been praised throughout the world, but the bedrock remains what The New York Times Book Review said of his very first book: "Mr. Alexie's is...
Author
Series
Native American volume no. 9
Publisher
American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
94 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxi, 723 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.
Author
Publisher
Melcher Media
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
108 p. : ill. ; 26 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: This book combines brief first-person narratives of 37 contemporary Native Americans who have been leading prominent roles in Indian education with artistic black and white photographic portraits of each of these individuals.
13) Smoke signals
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former Spokane Reservation best friends, Seymour and Aristotle have taken different paths when they are brought together for the funeral of an old friend. Both went off to college; one is now a successful poet, the other returned home embittered. Tensions and resentments flare as they meet again.
15) The exiles
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (72 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An account of the problems encountered by Native Americans living in urban areas and caught between two conflicting cultures, as shown by footage of 12 hours in the lives of a group living in Los Angeles.
Bonus Features: Four Short Films; Clips from Thorn Anderson's masterpiece, Los Angeles Plays Itself; Commentary Track; Last Days of Angeles Flight, A Short Film; Bunker Hill: A Tale of Urban Renewal, A Short Film by Greg Kimble; WNYC's The Leonard...