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Students From John Marshall And Indian Heritage Schools

826 Seattle, 2006

Very Impressed
These kid's did a GREAT job! For this being their first time in this program(826)I was amazed by some of the writing's these kid's produced. I can't wait until the student that gave us a tid bit(pg.#95)of the actual book he is writing to be published. It's a hard read at times but well worth it.

First Indian on the Moon

5 reviews
Sherman Alexie

Hanging Loose Press, 1993

The Many Voices of Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexi is an in-your-face poet, there's no doubt about it. He has a voice that demands to be heard, and you will listen, even unwillingly. His style is unique, mixing short, terse lines of verse alternating with long lines of prose that carry contrasts of charged emotion against the calming voice of reason. It is not an easy read. There are harsh truths, but truths that need to be ...

Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heave

1 review
Sherman Alexie

VINTAGE (RAND), 1997

22 short stories focusing on native americans, 22 winners
After watching Smoke Signals, a fine film, I was driven to try the prose of this fine writer. Cousin I was not expecting the depth of feeling this author invokes with his tales of struggles with modern life in a foreign country...America. Could not put this book down once started and picked up a couple more of author's works right away. Experience a taste of what it may be like to be Native ...

One Stick Song

8 reviews
Sherman Alexie

Hanging Loose Press, 2000

A brilliant satiric perspective on American Indian culture
"One Stick Song" is a superb blend of poetry and prose by Sherman Alexie. The back cover notes that the author is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, and indeed the main topic of this book is American Indian life and literature. Although Whitman is invoked in one of the pieces ("The American Artificial Limb Company"), I found Alexie's voice in this piece to remind me more of Kurt Vonnegut and George ...

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

83 reviews
Sherman Alexie

Little Brown and Company, 2007

the many disadvantages
How many disadvantages can one person overcome? Junior, the narrator of this book, overcomes several disabilities at birth, and then must overcome the physical manifestations of those disabilities (oversize head, lisp, stutter, etc.) for the rest of his life. On top of that he faces the disadvantages that come with being a member of the Spokane Indian tribe: poverty, endemic alcoholism, and ...

Smoke Signals

10 reviews
Sherman Alexie

Topeka Bindery, 1998

What can I say...
What can I say about an author that evokes so many emotions in one time. This movie ranks in my top 5 of all time, right beside Stand By Me, Dances with Wolves, and Schindler's List. This is classic Alexie at his best: thought provoking and haunting at times, yet also witty and even hysterical (especially the song about John Wayne's teeth-I had to stop the movie for about 5 minutes I couldn't ...

Ten Little Indians

23 reviews
Sherman Alexie, 2003

"It's tough to be a smart girl anywhere," (ain't that the truth)
"but it's way tough on the rez." From The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above. The thing about Sherman Alexie is that he examines life from the inside out. Or maybe it's more accurate to say that he examines life from the reservation out. He has a way of pointing out these specific characteristics and challenges that one faces growing up on the reservation and beyond. But when you pay ...

Will Work For Peace: New Political Poems

10 reviews
Sherman Alexie, Marge Piercy, ...

Zeropanik Press

A wonderful book.
I go to a somewhat conservative boarding school and lent this book to one of my writing teachers, who previously had said that there is no way that a political poem can be heartfelt. This book proves that notion wrong. Normally when people think about politics, they only think about who is running for office, but there is so much more than that in this book. This book should be available in ...

Flight

55 reviews
Sherman Alexie

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2008

One of Alexie's Best
This book is a personal favorite of mine. Sherman Alexie never ceases to surprise, entertain, or inform me. This story is a fictional work that brings much needed attention to several issues including but not limited to race, class, child abuse, the astonishing rate of alcoholism in native Americans, the struggle many foster children face on a daily basis, the ability of people to be ...

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

108 reviews
Sherman Alexie

McGraw-Hill Trade, 2000

That's How I Do Life Sometimes By Making The Ordinary Just Like Magic... -Sherman Alexie
Halfway through this book I emailed the friend that bought it for me to tell him how much I was loving it. I then asked him "How the hell am I supposed to review this?" His reply was to explain that "He needs a new star, a category for 'Holy Sh!t, that one hit me hard.' But they don't make the Holy Sh!t category on Amazon." That pretty much says it all. The truth is I was blown away by ...

Watershed

1 review
Percival Everett

Beacon Press, 2003

A mystery with a social conscience
Robert Hawks, a hydrologist, finds himself caught between the FBI and a Native American group in a mystery that deals with treaty rights, civil rights and water rights. Sounds a bit heavy doesn't it? But Everett pulls it all together in this book. Interspersed with actual treaty information, commentaries on peyote use, hydrology tables, this book moves effortlessly from the central mystery to ...

Reservation Blues

77 reviews
Sherman Alexie

Topeka Bindery, 1996

Confronting Racism
Alexie at his best. With humor, irony, and compassion, this novel mirrors the hopelessness of being born, raised and a resident of the reservation.

The Toughest Indian in the World

42 reviews
Sherman Alexie

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000

Master storyteller; One damned good writer
Alexie is a masterful storyteller, delivering an original and strong voice. His characters are not victims, but they're not superstars either; Alexie uses satire to unburden us from his character's racism. Each story tells many stories in order to develop character--from external details to caustic internal psychology. Often, Alexie repeats himself to cement an idea and create through-line. For ...

Jar of Fools

8 reviews
Jason Lutes

Drawn and Quarterly, 2003

lovely.
Jason Lutes, Jar of Fools (Drawn and Quarterly, 2003) I've read some pretty good graphic novels in the past couple of months, but Jar of Fools was impressive on levels that a number of them never even thought to explore; it was definitely the best of the early-January batch. You have a burned-out magician, dangerously close to being homeless, pining over his lost girlfriend. You have the lost ...

Indian Killer

90 reviews
Sherman Alexie

Grand Central Publishing, 1998

Well worth a second look
After reading other reviewers, I am amused and not a bit surprised. Sherman Alexie can't get a break - sure he is successful by many standards, but the critiques I read were watery. Useless, in fact. This book was a departure from Alexie's shorter stories - any why not? His short stories were a departure from his poems. His films have been departures in a sense, both from his texts, and also one ...

Old Shirts & New Skins (Native American, No 9)

3 reviews
Sherman Alexie

American Indian Studies, 1993

Funny and true
This book of poetry has a real quality, a sort of grittiness so you know it's true. The poems tie together present miseries with the history of Indian wars. But of course it's not the version of Indian wars we got through the movies; rather it is the untold part, of suffering of native people defending their way of life. I am new to Sherman Alexie and new to American Indian literature; I came ...

Indian Killer

1 review
Sherman Alexie

Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 1998

A strange turnaround for Alexie.
Sherman Alexie is a fantastically gifted writer, and Reservation Blues and his short stories are recognized as masterpieces. This book, however, is so different in its focus and execution that one wonders what Alexie's motivation was in publishing it. The main character is despicable--and obviously mentally ill. He brutalizes the most innocent of victims, shocking the reader with murders which ...

The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems

3 reviews
Sherman Alexie

Hanging Loose Press, 1991

Image-rich collection should transform your view of world
The Business of Fancydancing is a collection that will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up while you laugh, cry and stare at the written page with stunned amazement. Alexie uses language as a paintbrush, creating a complex mosaic of life growing up Indian and walking through a world that is not quite yours. The author slashes at stereotypes of what it is to be an American ...

Indian Country

9 reviews
Gwendolyn Cates, W. Richard West

Grove/Atlantic, 2001

A Return Ticket to Indian Country
Being an individual who has travelled from England and been most fortunate and privileged to be hosted by and reside within Anishinaabe Reservation Communities in Wisconsin, I found this book, both, extremely exciting and enthralling. Its vivid content evoked many happy memories for me. I particularly like the synopsis, by Gwendolen, that appears directly on the inside front cover pages. This ...

Summer of Black Widows

5 reviews
Sherman Alexie

Topeka Bindery, 2003

admiration and awe
This collection of poems is woven beautifully together. Like his other books of poetry and novels this book is thought provoking, humorous, disturbing and wonderful. Once again I am left breathless at the end of one of Mr. Alexie's book wanting more. I found myself weaving in and out of the book, reading one poem then returning to a previous poem because of the way they interconnected. A ...

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