The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Sherman Alexie
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Short Stories
- 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. Last year, Hanging Loose Press published THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING (see MAGILL’S LITERARY ANNUAL, 1993), a collection of poems, stories, and vignettes praised for its myth-making 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 pow-wows and oral...
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