Reservation Blues (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
At a glance:
- Author: Sherman Alexie
- First Published: 1995
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Memory, Magic or magicians, Twentieth century, Music or musicians, Dreams, Native Americans or American Indians, Faustian bargains, Satire, Talisman or magical object
The Work
Sherman Alexie’s first novel, Reservation Blues, was published before his thirtieth birthday and after the striking success of The Business of Fancydancing (1992), a collection of poems and stories published by a small press when he was twenty-six. By the time his novel was being reviewed, nearly eight thousand copies of The Business of Fancydancing were in print, along with two additional collections of poetry, Old Shirts and New Skins and First Indian on the Moon, and a heralded book of short stories, The Lone Ranger and Tonto...
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