The Lone-Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Oct 20, 2024 1:46 AM

Author:Sherman Alexie

Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life.

In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie explores some of the major issues of our time: the pull between the urban and the rural, the future and the past; the trials and tribulations of young adulthood; the comlex density of daily life. A modern mythmaker with a sharp eye for irony, Sherman Alexie's focus is an American Indian reservation, but his playground is the world.

Reviews

So wide-ranging, dexterous and consistently capable of raising your neck hair that it enters at once into our ideas of who we are and who we might be

—— New York Times Book Review

I laughed and laughed and couldn't stop reading... Sherman Alexie is simply one of the best new writers we have

—— Leslie Marmon Silko

Poetic and unremittingly honest . . . The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is for the American Indian what Richard Wright’s Native Son was for the black American in 1940.

—— The Chicago Tribune

She was one of the century's finest writers, and her stories are among her finest works

—— Lucy Hughes-Hallett , Sunday Times

Angela Carter has language at her fingertips

—— New Statesman

Alice Munro! Now that's writing

—— Margaret Atwood

That Munro is a great writer of short stories should go without saying. She is also one of the two or three best writers of fiction (of any length) now alive

—— Sunday Times

This superb collection...confirms Munro's place as the laureate of thwarted passion - and quite possibly the greatest short-story writer at work today

—— Daily Telegraph

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