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First Indian on the Moon
Contributor(s): Alexie, Sherman (Author)

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 ISBN: 1882413024     ISBN-13: 9781882413027
Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
OUR PRICE: $17.10  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 1993
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Native American
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 818.540
LCCN: 93030713
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.6" W x 8.1" L (0.30 lbs) 116 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
Review Citations: Library Journal 11/15/1993
Publishers Weekly 11/08/1993
 
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Publisher Description:
Poetry. Native American Studies. FIRST INDIAN ON THE MOON opens with the section Influences: where I have been/ most of my lives/ is where I'm going/--Lucille Clifton. The stories and poems of Sherman Alexie, an enrolled Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian from Wellpint, Washington, have appeared widely, in such publications as Caliban, Esquire, The World, Beloit Poetry Journal, Red Dirt, Zyzzyva and Story. Alexie has won a National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship, and lives in Spokane. These elegiac poems and stories will break your heart. Watch this guy. He's making myth--Joy Harjo.

Contributor Bio(s): Alexie, Sherman: - Sherman Alexie's poems, fiction, essays and films have won him an international following since his first book, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING, was published in 1992. SMOKE SIGNALS, the film he adapted from one of his short stories and co-produced, enlarged his audience still further. Alexie's awards include the Stranger Genius Award in Literature, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature in Fiction, and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature as well as honors and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Foundation, and a citation as "One of 20 Best American Novelists Under the Age of 40" from Granta magazine. An enrolled Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, Alexie lives in Seattle with his wife and sons.
 
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