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Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie (2005, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated

ISBN-100802141900

ISBN-139780802141903

eBay Product ID (ePID)43437126

Product Key Features

Book TitleReservation Blues

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicSmall Town & Rural, Literary, Humorous / General

GenreFiction

AuthorSherman Alexie

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight9.9 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN94-046132

Reviews"The mystical complexity of Reservation Blues is as mesmerizing as the poetic power of Alexie's writing. . . . Generously laced with bleak and sometimes wacky humor, but none of that detracts from the book's poignant theme." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Scathingly funny . . . Reservation Blues never misses a beat, never sounds a false note." -- Los Angeles Times "Quiet, powerful...brilliant, deeply moving...[Sherman Alexie] is funny, he is perceptive, and he knows how to stir us in large and small ways." -Frederick Busch, The New York Times Book Review "An important voice in American literature." - The Boston Globe, "The mystical complexity ofReservation Bluesis as mesmerizing as the poetic power of Alexie's writing. . . . Generously laced with bleak and sometimes wacky humor, but none of that detracts from the book's poignant theme."-San Francisco Chronicle "Scathingly funny . . . Reservation Blues never misses a beat, never sounds a false note."-Los Angeles Times "Quiet, powerful . . . brilliant, deeply movingâ€¦[Sherman Alexie] is funny, he is perceptive, and he knows how to stir us in large and small ways."The New York Times Book Review "An important voice in American literature."The Boston Globe, The mystical complexity ofReservation Bluesis as mesmerizing as the poetic power of Alexie's writing. . . . Generously laced with bleak and sometimes wacky humor, but none of that detracts from the book's poignant theme." —San Francisco Chronicle Scathingly funny . . .Reservation Bluesnever misses a beat, never sounds a false note." —Los Angeles Times Quiet, powerful…brilliant, deeply moving…[Sherman Alexie] is funny, he is perceptive, and he knows how to stir us in large and small ways." –Frederick Busch,The New York Times Book Review An important voice in American literature." –The Boston Globe

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Synopsis"Many may remember the tale of Robert Johnson, the musician who sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads in exchange for being the best blues guitarist around. What many may not know is that after this tragic deal in Mississippi, Johnson ended up in a small town on the Spokane Indian reservation in Washington state-at least that's how author Sherman Alexie tells it. In his new book Reservation Blues, Alxie spins the fictional tale of Johnson's adventure at a new crossroads, this one in a small town called Wellpinit, Wash. It is here that he comes to seek out Big Mom, a local medicine woman, and, in so doing, leaves his famous guitar in the hands of misfit storyteller Thomas Builds-the-Fire. Builds-the-Fire, brought back from Alexie's last book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, takes up Johnson's magical guitar and, along with Victor Joseph, Junior Polatkin and two Flathead Indian sisters named Chess and Checkers, goes on to build a reservation blues band that takes the Northwest by storm... As the band plays club after club, Alexie uses music as a crosscultural bridge, without compromising the cultural integrity of his characters. The band members seem to take on the gamut of problems faced by Indians on the reservation today, battling everything from alcoholism to violence, political corruption to sexual abuse. Ghosts from the past, both personal and historical haunt the musicians, serving both to hold them back and urge them on. It would seem that the scars of abuse run deep." (The Commercial Appeal, June 11, 1995), Sherman Alexie has been hailed as "one of the best writers we have" ( The Nation ). Reservation Blues is his "irresistibly stunning debut novel" ( San Francisco Chronicle ). One day legendary bluesman Robert Johnson appears on the Spokane Indian reservation, in flight from the devil and presumed long dead. When he passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas-Builds-the-Fire--storyteller, misfit, and musician--a magical odyssey begins that will take them from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. This is a fresh, luxuriantly comic tale of power, tragedy, and redemption among contemporary Native Americans.

LC Classification NumberPS3551.L35774 R74