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Flight

A Novel

By Sherman Alexie

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| Paperback | 9780802170378

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The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his first novel in ten years, a powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster teenager — a boy who is not a “legal” Indian because he was never claimed by his father — who learns the true meaning of tContinue

The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his first novel in ten years, a powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster teenager — a boy who is not a “legal” Indian because he was never claimed by his father — who learns the true meaning of terror. About to commit a devastating act, the young man finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He resurfaces in the form of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, inhabits the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, and then rides with an Indian tracker in the 19th Century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to rest again in his own contemporary body, he is mightily transformed by all he’s seen. This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant — making us laugh while breaking our hearts. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and again, groundbreaking Alexie.

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  • This charming man

    Flight by Sherman Alexie 182pp, Harvill Secker, £12.99 Sherman Alexie, a novelist and poet who is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, cuts a striking figure on the US literary scene. With his broad frame and, until recently, long hair, his mixture of tru ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Native Son

    Fifteen is a terrible age for a boy, especially a boy with no parents, a trail of abusive foster homes, a predilection for arson and a face so full of acne even his friends call him Zits. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Ward Sutton FLIGHT B ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 208 Pages
  • Edition: 1
  • ISBN-10: 0802170374
  • ISBN-13: 9780802170378
  • Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
  • Pub date: Apr 17, 2007
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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