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Original Title:	The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
ISBN:	0802141676 (ISBN13: 9780802141675)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Washington (state)(United States)
Literary Awards:	PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award Nominee (1993), Washington State Book Award (1994)

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Sherman Alexie

Paperback | Pages: 242 pages

Rating: 4.09 | 23351 Users | 1904 Reviews

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Title	:	The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Author	:	Sherman Alexie
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 242 pages
Published	:	February 8th 2005 by Grove Press (first published September 1st 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Literature. Humor. Young Adult. Literary Fiction. Adult Fiction

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In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spoke Indian Reservation. These 22 interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep. Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who tells his stories long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationary that reads "From the Death Bed of James Many Horses III," even though he actually writes them on his kitchen table. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and most poetically, between modern Indians and the traditions of the past.

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Emulating my Goodreads and blog friend, Buried in Print, I stretched out my reading of this short story collection for almost a month! I didn't blow through it like a novel, which had been my short story habit before. I LOVED this collection, savoring my daily story. It's got that Alexie mix of sad and funny, full of quirky details, some mundane, some magical. Each story is an exploration of being an Indian (Alexie's term) in America, both on the reservation and off. Lots of broken families and

Sherman Alexie writes about the real. When the real becomes too real, it transforms into the magical. And vice versa.

"We have to believe in the power of imagination because it's all we have, and ours is stronger than theirs." - Lawrence ThorntonMake me jealous. If you can make me jealous, I am yours. I was kinda jealous of the community because they HAD one, despite tearing itself down in the no-past and no-future. I kinda loved these stories. I was almost belonging to it. Sometimes I felt lonely from the possessiveness of their heroes. That kinda sucked because I've been trying hard to avoid loneliness.

Alexie's collection of linked short stories is a tale of life on an Indian reservation; it is an exploration of the ways in which Indians deal with the pains and the joys of their lives (storytelling, dance, basketball, food, alcohol); it is a reflection on the relationship between past, present, and future; and it is a meditation on storytelling as a means of bearing witness and as a means of creation and change.The first story of the collection, "Every Little Hurricane," introduces both the

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman AlexieMany years ago I worked in a hub for indigenous peoples and storytellers from all over the world, and I think they taught me a lotmost of it not through ordinary words. Whether they were Native Americans or African shamans or People of the South American Forests or Aboriginal Australians, the thing they had in common was an inclusive view of all life: everything is alive; there is no division between all that is life or between

This is the book that really made me fall in love with Sherman Alexie, made me want to name my cat after him, made me go on to read everything I could find of his. I had seen the movie Smoke Signals, which was written by Alexie based on this book, a few years before and though I had liked it very much and my mother has me do my Victor/Thomas calls often, it took me awhile to actually read the collection of stories the film was based on. Alexie has a repetitive way of writing, that you don't

This is one of his earlier short story collections, and I think Sherman Alexie definitely got better at writing later on in his career. Several of the stories here left me skimming because I was confused, bored or both. Some ended too abruptly. In some, it felt like Alexie was going a bit too experimental on the structure and I got lost. But most of the stories were so excellent. That's why short story collections are so hard to review, for me, because they can be pretty uneven or inconsistent