Reservation Blues - Hardcover

Alexie, Sherman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871135949 ISBN 13: 9780871135940

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, 1995

Synopsis

In a first novel by the author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, legendary blues guitarist Robert Johnson appears on an Indian reservation to lead a Catholic rock band. 40,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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Review:

"The mystical complexity of "Reservation Blues" is as mesmerizing as the poetic power of Alexie's writing. . . . Generously laced with bleak and sometimes wacky humor, but none of that detracts from the book's poignant theme." --"San Francisco Chronicle"

"Scathingly funny . . . "Reservation Blues" never misses a beat, never sounds a false note." --"Los Angeles Times"

"Quiet, powerful...brilliant, deeply moving...[Sherman Alexie] is funny, he is perceptive, and he knows how to stir us in large and small ways." -Frederick Busch, "The New York Times Book Review"

"An important voice in American literature." -"The Boston Globe"
The mystical complexity of "Reservation Blues" is as mesmerizing as the poetic power of Alexie s writing. . . . Generously laced with bleak and sometimes wacky humor, but none of that detracts from the book s poignant theme. "San Francisco Chronicle"
Scathingly funny . . . "Reservation Blues" never misses a beat, never sounds a false note. "Los Angeles Times"
Quiet, powerfulbrilliant, deeply moving[Sherman Alexie] is funny, he is perceptive, and he knows how to stir us in large and small ways. Frederick Busch, "The New York Times Book Review"
An important voice in American literature. "The Boston Globe"
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"The mystical complexity of Reservation Blues is as mesmerizing as the poetic power of Alexie's writing. . . . Generously laced with bleak and sometimes wacky humor, but none of that detracts from the book's poignant theme." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Scathingly funny . . . Reservation Blues never misses a beat, never sounds a false note." --Los Angeles Times

"Quiet, powerful...brilliant, deeply moving...[Sherman Alexie] is funny, he is perceptive, and he knows how to stir us in large and small ways." -Frederick Busch, The New York Times Book Review

"An important voice in American literature." -The Boston Globe

About the Author:

Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, is the author of several books of poetry and two other novels. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven was a citation winner for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Book of Fiction and won the 1994 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Awards. His novel Reservation Blues won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award, and he has been named one of Granta's twenty Best Young American Novelists. He lives in Seattle.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0871135949
• ISBN 13: 9780871135940
• Binding: Hardcover