Flight. Sherman Alexie

Alexie, Sherman

ISBN 10: 1846551528 / ISBN 13: 9781846551529

Published by Harvill Press, 2008

About this Item

First edition, first printing. SIGNED by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are clear from notations. Creases visible across covers of paperback. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.5.

Seller Inventory # 1855558488

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flight. Sherman Alexie
• Publisher: Harvill Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846551528
• ISBN 13: 9781846551529
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: signed by author

About this title

Synopsis

Flight follows this troubled foster teenager - a boy who is not a 'legal' Indian because he was never claimed by his father - as he learns that violence is not the answer.

The journey for Flight's young hero begins as he's about to commit a massive act of violence. At the moment of the decision, he finds himself shot back through time to resurface in the body of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, where he sees why 'Hell is Red River, Idaho, in the 1970s'. Red River is only the first stop in an eye-opening trip through moments in American history. He will continue travelling back to inhabit the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Bighorn and then ride with an Indian tracker in the nineteenth century before materialising as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. During these travels through time, his refrain grows: 'Who's to judge?'

This novel seeks nothing less than an understanding of why human beings hate. Flight is irrepressible and fearless - Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant.

About the Author

Sherman Alexie is the author of Reservation Blues, Indian Killer, The Toughest Indian in the World, and Ten Little Indians. He wrote and directed The Business of Fancy-dancing and also wrote the award-winning screenplay for Smoke Signals, a film based on his short-story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. He has been nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the American Book Award.