Jhumpa Lahiri, Sherman Alexie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Aleksandar Hemon,
read by Condola Rashad, Boyd Gaines, B.D. Wong, and Rita Wolf. Selected Shorts, , unabridged, two CDs, 2 hrs., $19.95 ISBN 978-1-934033-15-9
In Adichie’s “The Thing Around Your Neck,” a young Nigerian immigrant is both adored and objectified by her white boyfriend. Condola Rashad’s narration gives the story energy, but her American accent fails to convey the narrator’s Igbo cadences. In...
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Rudolf Steiner, Author, Sherman Alexie, Author Hanging Loose Press $15 (140p) ISBN 978-1-882413-34-8
For prolific poet and novelist Alexie (First Indian on the Moon), ""Indian"" culture is not a frozen set-piece, but a field of vital, co-mingling influences that includes playing basketball, watching for Sasquatch or admiring Fred Astaire. His...
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Sherman Alexie, Author . Grove $24 (243p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1744-1
Fluent, exuberant and supremely confident, this outstanding collection shows Alexie (The Toughest Indian in the World,
etc.) at the height of his powers. Humor plays a leading role in the volume's nine stories, but it's love, both romantic...
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Sherman Alexie, Author . Hanging Loose $28 (160p) ISBN 978-1-931236-70-6
Brash, confrontational verse and prose have made Alexie the most famous, and the most controversial, Native American writer of his generation. Alexie (First Indian on the Moon
), in this first book of poems since 2000, sometimes works in sonnets,...
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Sherman Alexie, Author . Grove $23 (209p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1919-3
From National Book Award–winner Alexie comes a new collection of stories, poems, question and answer sequences, and hybrids of all three and beyond. In a penetrating voice that mixes humor with anger, Alexie pointedly asks, “If it is...
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Sherman Alexie. Grove, $27 (480p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2039-7
The National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award-winner’s latest work combines 15 classics (“The Toughest Indian in the World”; “Salt”; “Indian Education”) with 15 recent stories of varying length and tenor, and the result should attract new converts...
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Sherman Alexie, Author Hanging Loose Press $14 (116p) ISBN 978-1-882413-02-7
Reading this latest offering of poetry and short prose pieces from Native American writer Alexie ( The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven ), it's easy to see why his work has garnered so much attention. Working from a carefully developed...
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Sherman Alexie, Author Warner Books $13.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-446-67235-1
This first novel by the author of the story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven revolves around a bluesman's gift of a guitar to a Native American on a reservation. (Oct.)
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Sherman Alexie, Author Hanging Loose Press $15 (91p) ISBN 978-1-882413-76-8
Whether slyly identifying irony as a white man's invention, or deftly moving from prose-like multilayered narratives to formal poetry and song structures, this fifth collection from poet (The Business of Fancydancing; etc.), novelist (Indian Killer;
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Sherman Alexie, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $21 (223p) ISBN 978-0-87113-548-3
Known primarily as a poet, Alexie ( Old Shirts and New Skins ), a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, here offers 22 extremely fine short stories, all set on or around the Spokane reservation in Washington state. Characters flow from one tale to the next;
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Sherman Alexie, Author Harper Perennial $13 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-097624-8
A collection of 22 powerful short stories by Spokane Indian writer Alexie. (Sept.)
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Sherman Alexie, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-87113-652-7
In a startling departure from his earlier, more lyrical fiction, Native American novelist Alexie (Reservation Blues) weighs in with a racially charged literary thriller. Seattle is rife with racial tension as the city is terrorized by a serial...
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Sherman Alexie, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $21 (306p) ISBN 978-0-87113-594-0
The characters of Alexie's acclaimed short fiction (The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven)-Thomas Builds-the-Fire, Victor, Junior, the habitues of the Spokane Indian reservation-return in this superb first novel, a lyric comic tale with...
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Sherman Alexie, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $24 (238p) ISBN 978-0-87113-801-9
A prolific novelist, poet and screenplay writer, Alexie (Indian Killer; Reservation Blues) has been hailed as one of the best young writers of his generation. This dexterous second collection of stories contains what may be one of the best short...
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Sherman Alexie, Author Grove Press $14 (181p) ISBN 978-0-8021-7037-8
A deadpan ""Call Me Zits"" opens the first novel in 10 years from Alexie (""Smoke Signals"", etc.), narrated by a self-described ""time-traveling mass murderer"" whose name and deeds unravel as this captivating bildungsroman progresses. Half-Indian,
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Sherman Alexie, illus. by Yuyi Morales. Little, Brown, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-01372-7
Echoes of Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian resonate in this vibrant first-person tale, illustrated in a stormy palette by Morales (Niño Wrestles the World). “I am the only Thunder Boy who has ever lived,” says the young...
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Sherman Alexie, Author, Ellen Forney, Illustrator , illus. by Ellen Forney. Little, Brown $16.99 (229p) ISBN 978-0-316-01368-0
Screenwriter, novelist and poet, Alexie bounds into YA with what might be a Native American equivalent of Angela’s Ashes,
a coming-of-age story so well observed that its very rootedness in one specific culture is also what lends it...
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Sherman Alexie, Author, Kenneth Lincoln, Editor American Indian Studies Center University Ang $12 (94p) ISBN 978-0-935626-36-0
Alexie ( The Business of Fancydancing ) here emerges as a Native poet of the first order. He captures the full range of modern Native experience, writing both with anger and with great affection and humor. Detailing the continuing deprivation and...
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Sherman Alexie. Little, Brown, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-27075-5
Intense but unspoken feeling suffuses the bittersweet relationship between a mother and her son in this poignant, conflicted, raucous memoir of a Native American family. Novelist and poet Alexie (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian)...
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