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Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories - Sherman Alexie
Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
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Sherman Alexie’s stature as a writer of stories, poems, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed stories from the last two decades, from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner award–winning War... show more
Sherman Alexie’s stature as a writer of stories, poems, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed stories from the last two decades, from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner award–winning War Dances, have established him as a star in modern literature. A bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the daring, versatile, funny, and outrageous Alexie showcases all his talents in his newest collection, Blasphemy, where he unites fifteen beloved classics with fifteen new stories in one sweeping anthology for devoted fans and first-time readers. Included here are some of his most esteemed tales, including “What You Pawn I Will Redeem," “This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” “The Toughest Indian in the World,” and “War Dances.” Alexie’s new stories are fresh and quintessential—about donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, the reservation, marriage, and all species of contemporary American warriors.An indispensable collection of new and classic stories, Blasphemy reminds us, on every thrilling page, why Sherman Alexie is one of our greatest contemporary writers and a true master of the short story.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780802120397 (0802120393)
ASIN: 0802120393
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
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thomcat
thomcat rated it
I really enjoyed most of the stories in this collection, and who doesn't love Sherman Alexie?
Peace, Love & Books
Peace, Love & Books rated it
5.0
An amazing collection, half of which are a sampling of Alexie's best previously published stories and the other half new. What always amazes me about Alexie is how he is able to use humor to make palatable the many ugly, tragic things about which he writes. In the hands of a less competent writer, t...
MEslaymaker
MEslaymaker rated it
Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book, rightfully, be called a book if it never gets read? “How many books never get checked out?” Corliss asked the librarian.“Most of them,” she said.Corliss had never once considered the fate of lib...
Words, Worlds, Whorls
Words, Worlds, Whorls rated it
4.0 Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
What a great new collection of short stories. I loved all the new stuff, and it was interesting to read the older stories in a new context. What I have read of Alexie's work in the past has often seemed like several variations on the same song (a good song, don't get me wrong; the sort of song I w...
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