Research Catalog

Title

The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie.

Author

Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

Publication

New York : Grove Press, c2005.

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Details

Description

xxii, 242 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

This collection of short stories offers a fictional portrait of the characters, language, traditions, and daily life of those living on the Spokane Indian Reservation.

Alternative Title

Lone Ranger and Tonto fist fight in heaven

Subject

• Spokane Indians > Fiction
• Washington (State) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Autobiographical fiction
• Fiction
• Fictional autobiographies
• Fiction.
• Black humor
• Short stories

Note

• Originally published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993. With a new introduction, two new stories (Flight, Junior Polatkin's Wild West show), and reading group guide.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Every little hurricane -- A drug called tradition -- Because my father always said he was the only Indian who saw Jimi Hendrix play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock -- Crazy Horse dreams -- Only traffic signal on the reservation doesn't flash red anymore -- Amusements -- This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona -- The fun house -- All I wanted to do was dance -- The trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire -- Distances -- Jesus Christ's half-brother is alive and well on the Spokane Indian Reservation -- A train is an order of occurrence designed to lead to some result -- A good story -- The first annual all-Indian horseshoe pitch and barbecue -- Imagining the reservation -- The approximate size of my favorite tumor -- Indian education -- The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven -- Family portrait -- Somebody kept saying powwow -- Witnesses, secret and not -- Flight -- Junior Polatkin's Wild West show.

ISBN

0802141676 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 57724939
• SCSB-11580315

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library