Flight - Softcover

Alexie, Sherman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802170374 ISBN 13: 9780802170378

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"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

Book Description:

The hilarious and tragic portrait of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0802170374
• ISBN 13: 9780802170378
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208