Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life.
In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie explores some of the major issues of our time: the pull between the urban and the rural, the future and the past; the trials and tribulations of young adulthood; the comlex density of daily life. A modern mythmaker with a sharp eye for irony, Sherman Alexie's focus is an American Indian reservation, but his playground is the world.
A Seattle, un assassin tue des Blancs, les scalpe et dépose deux plumes de hibou sur leur corps : terreur sur la ville, tourmente parmi la communauté indienne que ces crimes désignent à la vindicte générale.
Ainsi va naître la légende du " tueur indien ", justicier pour les uns, psychopathe pour les autres... Pendant ce temps, un jeune Indien adopté par un couple de Blancs sombre dans la folie...
Thriller ? Roman noir ? Indian Killer en a toutes les apparences et les qualités. Mais le roman de Sherman Alexie transcende les lois du genre. Livre sombre et fascinant, il met en accusation une société américaine minée par la discrimination et, au-delà, s'interroge sur la condition humaine, l'identité, la haine de l'Autre.
Avec ce mélange percutant de poésie, de colère et d'humour, qui lui est propre, Sherman Alexie signe un roman pessimiste et violent, écrit, comme le fut en son temps Un enfant du pays de Richard Wright, par un écrivain américain appartenant à une minorité, mais dont la voix est universelle.
Adventure stories/Fiction dealing with bullying, truancy & school problemsThe sad yet funny semi-autobiographical story of a Native American Indian boy who manages to leave his life on the reservation despite overwhelming odds. Illustrated in a contemporary cartoon style by Ellen Forney. Ages: 12+.
A collection of short stories includes the title story, in which a famous writer, who just learned he may have a brain tumor, must decide how to care for his distant, American Indian father who is slowly dying.
In these stories we meet the kinds of American Indians we rarely see in literature---the upper and middle class, the professionals and white-collar workers, the bureaucrats and poets, falling in and out of love and wondering if they will make their way home. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in the world. A Spokane son waits for his diabetic father to return from the hospital, listening to his father's friends argue over Jesus' carpentry skills as they build a wheelchair ramp. An estranged interracial couple, separated in the midst of a traffic accident, rediscover their love for each other. A white drifter holds up an International House of Pancakes, demanding a dollar per customer and someone to love, and emerges with forty-two dollars and an overweight Indian he dubs Salmon Boy.Alexie's is a voice of remarkable passion, and these stories are love stories - between parents and children, white people and Indians, movie stars and ordinary people. Witty, tender, and fierce, the toughest Indian in the world is a virtuoso performance
'Kevin and I already picked the song we're going to play during our first dance at our wedding'. 'That's not crazy', I said. 'Music is everything'. William is young, passionate, and in love with fellow student Maria. He even writes poetry about her. But Maria has been dating Kevin for the past four years, and William has to settle for being her friend instead. When Kevin unexpectedly breaks up with her, Michael seizes his chance and asks her to be his date to the Winter Formal. But then his whole life starts to fall apart.
Modern fictionSherman Alexie's first novel in 10 years is the portrait of an orphaned Native American boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity.
