 | Winter in the Blood (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 29, 2008| Series: Penguin Classics Two contemporary classics from a major writer of the Native American renaissance During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Blood, is one of his most enduring works. The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is a young Native American man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Sensitive and self-destructive, he searches for something that will bind him to the lands of his ancestors but is haunted by personal tragedy, the dissolution of his on...
 |  | Ten Little Indians
Publication Date: March 17, 2004Sherman 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 w...
|  | The Way to Rainy Mountain
Publication Date: September 1, 1976First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies."The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has remained vital, and immediate, for that is the nature of story. And this is particularly true of the oral tradition, which exists in a dimension of timelessness. I was first told these stories by my father when I was a child. I do not know how long they had existed before I heard them. They seem to procee...
|  | Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Release Date: December 26, 2006Thirty years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound andmoving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, aWorld War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeplyscarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection heencounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regainthe peace that was taken from him. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo...
|  | The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: May 5, 2009| Series: P.S.For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To further complicate his quiet existence, a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, possibly false saint Sister Leopolda. Father Damien alone knows the strange truth of Leopolda's piety and is faced with the most difficult decision...
|  | The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Publication Date: February 8, 2005When it was first published in 1993, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven established Sherman Alexie as a stunning new talent of American letters. The basis for the award-winning movie Smoke Signals, it remains one of his most beloved and widely praised books. In this darkly comic collection, Alexie brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issu...
|  | Indian Killer
Publication Date: July 1, 2008“Part thriller, part magical realism, and part social commentary, Indian Killer . . . lingers long past the final page.”—Seattle WeeklyA national best seller, Indian Killer is arguably Sherman Alexie’s most controversial book to date—a gritty, racially charged literary thriller that, over a decade after its first publication, remains an electrifying tale of alienation and justice. A serial murderer called the Indian Killer is terrorizing Seattle, hunting, scalping, and slaughtering white men. Motivated by rage and seeking retribution...
|  | American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: February 25, 2003| Series: Penguin Classics Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, refuses to be caged by married and domestic life and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Kate Chopin shows Edna's transformation-and its tragic consequences. This unique volume also includes some of Chopin's finest stories, among them "At the 'Cadian Ball" and "Désirée's Baby." Edited with an Introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Toughest Indian in the World
Publication Date: April 9, 2000A beloved American writer whose books are championed by critics and readers alike, Sherman Alexie has been hailed by Time as "one of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise." Now his acclaimed new collection, The Toughest Indian in the World, which received universal praise in hardcover, is available in paperback. In these stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature -- the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hit...
|  | Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Modern Classics)
Publication Date: March 12, 1987| Series: Modern Classics In its first two years of production in Italy, Dario Fo's notorious Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people. It has since been performed all over the world, and become a classic of twentieth-century drama. A sharp and hilarious satire on police corruption, it concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters window.This edition has been adapted by Gavin Richards from Gillian Hanna's translation and features an introduction by Stuart Hood and a ...
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