The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven
by Alexie, ShermanEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-02-08
Publisher(s): GROVE PRESS
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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.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | xi | ||
| Every Little Hurricane | 1 | (11) | |
| A Drug Called Tradition | 12 | (12) | |
| Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock | 24 | (13) | |
| Crazy Horse Dreams | 37 | (6) | |
| The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore | 43 | (11) | |
| Amusements | 54 | (5) | |
| This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona | 59 | (17) | |
| The Fun House | 76 | (7) | |
| All I Wanted to Do Was Dance | 83 | (10) | |
| The Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire | 93 | (11) | |
| Distances | 104 | (6) | |
| Jesus Christ's Half-Brother Is Alive and Well on the Spokane Indian Reservation | 110 | (20) | |
| A Train Is an Order of Occurrence Designed to Lead to Some Result | 130 | (9) | |
| A Good Story | 139 | (6) | |
| The First Annual All-Indian Horseshoe Pitch and Barbecue | 145 | (4) | |
| Imagining the Reservation | 149 | (5) | |
| The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor | 154 | (17) | |
| Indian Education | 171 | (10) | |
| The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | 181 | (10) | |
| Family Portrait | 191 | (8) | |
| Somebody Kept Saying Powwow | 199 | (12) | |
| Witnesses, Secret and Not | 211 | (13) | |
| Flight | 224 | (8) | |
| Junior Polatkin's Wild West Show | 232 |
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