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The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven
Alexie, Sherman, 1966-

Publisher:	Grove Press ;
Pub date:	c2005.
Pages:	xxii, 242 p. ;
ISBN:	0802141676

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Evanston Public Library Main
		Material	Location
	YA Fiction Alexi.S	Book	Young Adult Collection - 3rd Floor Loft

Summary

In this darkly comic collection of 22 interlocked tales, Alexia brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

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Personal Author:	Alexie, Sherman, 1966-
Title:	The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie.
Edition:	1st Grove Press ed.
Publication info:	New York : Grove Press ; [S. l.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2005.
Physical descrip:	xxii, 242 p. ; 21 cm.
General 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.
General Note:	Includes a reading group guide.
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 -- The 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.
Held by:	FREMONT EPLMAIN
Subject term:	Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Fiction.
Subject term:	Spokane Indians--Fiction.
Geographic term:	Washington (State)--Fiction.
Genre index term:	Autobiographical fiction.
Control Number:	ocm57724939
ISBN:	0802141676 (pbk.) : $13.00