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The toughest Indian in the world / Sherman Alexie.

Résumé :

In these nine stories, we meet the kind of American Indians we rarely see in literature -- the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love. A Spokane Indian journalist transplanted from the reservation to the city picks up a hitchhiker, a Lummi boxer looking to take on the toughest Indian in the world. A Spokane son waits for his diabetic father to come home from the hospital, tossing out the Hershey Kisses the father has hidden all over the house. An estranged interracial couple, separated in the midst of a traffic accident, rediscover their love for each other. A white drifter holds up an International House of Pancakes, demanding a dollar per customer and someone to love, and emerges with

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  • ISBN : 9780802138002 :
  • ISBN : 0802138004 :
  • Description physique : 238 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Éditeur : New York : Grove Press, c2000.

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Note de dépouillement structurée :
Assimilation -- The toughest Indian in the world -- Class -- South by southwest -- The sin eaters -- Indian country -- Saint Junior -- Dear John Wayne -- One good man.
Données biographiques ou historiques :
Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. is a Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker.
Sujet :
Indians of North America > Fiction.
United States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
West (U.S.) > Social life and customs > Fiction.
Genre :
Short stories, American > Indian authors.

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