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Ten Little Indians

By Sherman Alexie

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| Paperback | 9780802141170

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Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and popular writers today. With Ten Little Indians, he offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimesContinue

Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and popular writers today. With Ten Little Indians, he offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love. In Alexie's first story, "The Search Engine," Corliss is a rugged and resourceful student who finds in books the magic she was denied while growing up poor. In "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above," an intellectual feminist Spokane Indian woman saves the lives of dozens of white women all around her to the bewilderment of her only child. "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" starts off with a homeless man recognizing in a pawnshop window the fancy-dance regalia that were stolen fifty years earlier from his late grandmother. Even as they often make us laugh, Alexie's stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candor that cut to the heart of the human experience, shedding brilliant light on what happens when we grow into and out of each other.

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  • Stateless in Seattle

    Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie 243pp, Secker & Warburg, £12 Each age, Fergus Bordewich wrote in Killing the White Man's Indian , has "imagined its own Indian: untameable savage, child of nature, steward of the earth, the white man's ultimate vi ... (read full critics)

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

  • Ten Little Indians By Sherman Alexie

    Sherman Alexie explores the sacred and the profaneSherman Alexie may be one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. The author of such novels as Reservation Blues and Indian Killer is also a poet and a screenwriter ( Smoke Signals, The Busin ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Sat, 11 Sep 2010

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  • Ten Little Indians

    A collection of short stories about Indians living in modern America: Very ironically funny

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 256 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 080214117X
  • ISBN-13: 9780802141170
  • Publisher: Grove Press
  • Pub date: Mar 17, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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