Dec 28, 2009

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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Author: Sherman Alexie
First Published: 1993
Type of Work: Short stories
Setting: Spokane Indian Reservation, Wellpinit, Washington
Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
Subjects: Culture, 1960’s, 1970’s, Tradition, 1980’s, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Native Americans or American Indians, Alcohol, Storytelling, Pacific Northwest, Hurricanes
Locales: Washington, Spokane Indian Reservation, WA, Wellpinit, WA

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is Sherman Alexie’s first full-length work of fiction. In 1992, Hanging Loose Press published his The Business of Fancydancing (see Magill’s Literary Annual 1993) praised for its mythmaking power to portray the inner lives and unspoken conflicts of Native Americans caught with “one foot in the reservation and the other in the outside world.” In The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Alexie continues to write about a native culture whose traditions, such as powwows and oral storytelling, have been...

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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

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