Flight
Sherman Alexie
(Author)
Description
The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his first novel in ten years, a powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster teenager -- a boy who is not a "legal" Indian because he was never claimed by his father -- who learns the true meaning of terror. About to commit a devastating act, the young man finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He resurfaces in the form of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, inhabits the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, and then rides with an Indian tracker in the 19th Century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to rest again in his own contemporary body, he is mightily transformed by all he's seen. This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant -- making us laugh while breaking our hearts. Simultaneously wrenching and deeply humorous, wholly contemporary yet steeped in American history, Flight is irrepressible, fearless, and again, groundbreaking Alexie.Product Details
Price
$16.00
$14.88
Publisher
Grove Press, Black Cat
Publish Date
April 17, 2007
Pages
208
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.4 X 0.55 inches | 0.45 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780802170378
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About the Author
Sherman Alexie est sans conteste l'un des écrivains américains contemporains les plus singuliers et talentueux. Auteur de plusieurs romans et recueils de nouvelles dont notamment Dix petits indiens, Flight, Red blues et Danses de guerre tous publiés chez Albin Michel, Le Premier qui pleure a perdu est son premier roman jeunesse, couronné par le National Book Award 2007.
Reviews
"A funny, irreverent, sardonic but sentimental, rebellious voice set beside his elder . . . contemporaries . . . Alexie is the bad boy among them, mocking, self-mocking, unpredictable, unassimilable, reminding us of the young Philip Roth." -- Joyce Carol Oates