Sherman Alexie

Diario assolutamente sincero di un indiano part-time è un romanzo per ragazzi scritto da Sherman Alexie. Il libro è una semi autobiografia umoristica che ha vinto nel 2007 il National Book Award per la letteratura per ragazzi

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is a 1993 collection of interconnected short stories by Sherman Alexie. The characters and stories in the book, particularly "This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona", provided the basis of Alexie's screenplay for the film Smoke Signals. The collection was originally …

Tentativi di volo è un romanzo per ragazzi scritto dallo statunitense Sherman Alexie. Il libro, pubblicato nel 2007, è uscito in Italia nel 2010, edito da Rizzoli. L'opera, che ha come tema principale il disagio adolescenziale ha come protagonista Pustola, un ragazzo di origini nativo americane ed irlandesi, capace di …

Reservation Blues is a 1995 novel by Sherman Alexie. The novel follows the story of the rise and fall of a rock and blues band of Spokane Indians from the Spokane Reservation located in eastern Washington state. The central characters include Victor Joseph, Junior Polatkin, and Thomas Builds-The-Fire, who appear in …

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, this bestselling collection from master storyteller Sherman Alexie tackles love, loss, basketball--and everything in between The characters that populate the lyrical and affectionate tales in "Ten Little Indians" battle stereotypes and navigate the crossroads of culture …

A New York Times Notable Book: A series of brutal racially charged murders sets a city on edge in this thriller by a National Book Award–winning author. A serial murderer dubbed “the Indian Killer” has Seattle living in fear. As he scalps his victims and adorns their bodies with owl feathers, the city consumes itself …

A beloved American writer whose books are championed by critics and readers alike, Sherman Alexie has been hailed by Time as "one of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise." Now his acclaimed new collection, The Toughest Indian in the World, which received universal praise in hardcover, is available in …

This collection of short stories includes the title story, in which a famous writer, who just learned he may have a brain tumor, must decide how to care for his distant, American Indian father who is slowly dying.