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| 类型/形式： | Short stories Fiction |
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| 材料类型： | 小说 |
| 文件类型： | 书 |
| 所有的著者/提供者： |
Sherman Alexie |
| ISBN: | 9780802119193 0802119190 9780802144898 0802144896 |
| OCLC号码： | 436289590 |
| 奖励： | PEN/Faulkner award, 2010. |
| 描述： | 209 p. ; 22 cm. |
| 内容： | "The Limited" -- Breaking and entering -- "Go, Ghost, Go" -- Bird-watching at night -- "After building the Lego 'Star Wars' Ultimate Death Star" -- War dances -- "The theology of reptiles" -- Catechism -- "Ode to small-town sweethearts" -- The senator's son -- "Another proclamation" -- Invisible dog on a leash -- "Home of the braves" -- The ballad of Paul Nonetheless -- "On airplanes" -- Big bang theory -- "Ode for pay phones" -- Fearful symmetry -- "Ode to mix tapes" -- Roman Catholic haiku -- "Looking glass" -- Salt -- "Food chain." |
| 责任： | by Sherman Alexie. |
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"Sherman Alexie is not a finicky writer. He is often messy and in-your-face in a way that can make you laugh (or shudder) when you least expect to. . . . "War Dances" is Alexie's fiercely freewheeling collection of stories and poems about the tragicomedies of ordinary lives." --"O, the Oprah Magazine"
"Alexie has a wry, subversive sensibility. . . . The structure [in "War Dances"] is sophisticated yet playful, a subtle way to bring lightness to heavy topics such as senility, bigotry, cancer, and loneliness. . . . A mix tape of a book, with many voices, pieces of different length, shifting rhythms, an evolving story."--"Los Angeles Times"
"Smart modern stories interspersed with witty and deep-feeling verse."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Sherman Alexie mixes up comedy and tragedy, shoots it through with tenderness, then delivers with a provocateur's don't-give-a-damn flourish. He's unique, and his new book, "War Dances," is another case in point."--"Seattle Times"
"Alexie's works are piercing yet rueful. He writes odes to anguished pay-phone calls, to boys who would drive through blizzards to see a girl, to couples who need to sit together on airplane flights even though the computer thinks otherwise. . . . [A] marvelous collection.""Miami Herald"
""War Dances" taps every vein and nerve, every tissue, every issue that quickens the current blood-pulse: parenthood, divorce, broken links, sex, gender and racial conflict, substance abuse, medical neglect, 9/11, Official Narrative vs. What Really Happened, settler religion vs. native spirituality, marketing, shopping, and war, war, war. All the heartbreaking ways we don't live now--this is the caring, eye-opening beauty of this rollicking, bittersweet gem of a book." --PEN/Faulkner judge Al Young
"Few other contemporary writers seem willing to deal with issues of race, class, and sexuality as explicitly as Alexie . . . ["War Dances" is] a virtuoso performance of wit and pathos, a cu
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