The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | Literary Qualities
Sherman Alexie proves himself an outstanding literary artist in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. He writes unconventional, nonlinear stories steeped in poetry, full of humor, and inhabited by unforgettable characters. Alexie acknowledges that storytelling, dreams, and visions are motifs in his book, and it is often hard to tell the "real" from the imagined. Frequently, one finds stories wrapped within other stories, filled with flashbacks or flashing forward in time, as hard to pin down as real life. Alexie told Dennis and Joan West in an interview in Cineaste...
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