The Summer of Black Widows by Alexie, Sherman (9781882413348)

The Summer of Black Widows

by Alexie, Sherman

Paperback - English

THE SUMMER OF BLACK WIDOWS presents poetry that has continued to grow in power, complexity, and vision. According to reviewer James R. Kincaid, "Mr. Alexie's is one of the major lyric voices of our time," and the many honors and an international following of readers from his poems, stories, and novels proves the claim. Chris Faatz from The Nation agrees, calling Alexie "a young writer who is taking the literary world by storm ... a superb chronicler of the Native American experience ... he is a master of language, writing beautifully, unsparingly and straight to the heart."

Poetry. Native American Studies.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1882413342

EAN

9781882413348

Publisher

HANGING LOOSE PR

Publication Date

01 Apr 1996

Pages

140

Weight (kg)

0.25

Dimensions (cm)

23.0 x 15.3 x 1.1

About Author

A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, Sherman J. Alexie, Jr. grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA. His first collection of short stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993). For this collection, he received a PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction, and was awarded a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. One of the short stories featured in the collection, "This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona," was later adapted into the film Smoke Signals (1998), which Alexie helped produce. Alexie was named one of Granta's Best of Young American N