Face by Alexie, Sherman (9781931236706)

Face

by Alexie, Sherman

Paperback - English

Poetry. Fiction. Native American Studies. In this first full collection in nine years, Alexie's poems and prose show his celebrated passion and wit while also exploring new directions. Novelist, storyteller and performer, he won the National Book Award for his YA novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. His work has been praised throughout the world, but the bedrock remains what The New York Times Book Review said of his very first book: Mr. Alexie's is one of the major lyric voices of our time.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1931236704

EAN

9781931236706

Publisher

HANGING LOOSE PR

Publication Date

15 Apr 2009

Pages

160

Weight (kg)

0.28

Dimensions (cm)

22.6 x 15.2 x 1.3

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