New Releases by Sherman Alexie

This resource offers a print version of the poem to use for the analysis and exploration of Sherman Alexie''s ''How to Write the Great American Indian Novel''.

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

National Book Award al mejor libro juvenil en 2007. Elegido por la revista Time como el Mejor Libro para Jóvenes de todos los tiempos. Arnold Spirit Junior, un ingenioso dibujante de viñetas de catorce años que recibe collejas todo el tiempo por ser torpe, tartamudo y llevar unas horribles gafas torcidas, decide ir a un instituto para blancos que está muy lejos de la reserva india donde vive con su familia. Seguro que allí también se burlarán de él, pero quizá tenga la oportunidad de probarle a todos que se equivocan. Junior afrontará la vida con ingenio y humor para descubrir una fuerza interior cuya existencia desconocía. Con las agudas viñetas de Ellen Forney, esta es la increíble historia de un joven nativo americano que se rebela contra su destino. «Los personajes de la obra de Alexie no son los típicos indios [...]. No son unas víctimas trágicas ni esos nobles salvajes [...] escuchan a Jimi Hendrix y a Hank Williams; sueñan con ser estrellas del baloncesto [...]. Y, al contrario que la mayoría de los indios de las historias de ficción, estos son a veces divertidos». The New York Times

Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author''s own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character''s art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and four-color interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.

A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie''s bond with his mother Lillian was more complex than most. She plunged her family into chaos with a drinking habit, but shed her addiction when it was on the brink of costing her everything. She survived a violent past, but created an elaborate facade to hide the truth. She selflessly cared for strangers, but was often incapable of showering her children with the affection that they so desperately craved. She wanted a better life for her son, but it was only by leaving her behind that he could hope to achieve it. It''s these contradictions that made Lillian Alexie a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated, and very human woman. When she passed away, the incongruities that defined his mother shook Sherman and his remembrance of her. Grappling with the haunting ghosts of the past in the wake of loss, he responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is a stunning memoir filled with raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine, much less survive. An unflinching and unforgettable remembrance, You Don''t Have to Say You Love Me is a powerful, deeply felt account of a complicated relationship.

See below for English description. Tonnerre Junior porte le m�me nom que son p�re. Mais, il aimerait avoir un nom qui lui est propre; un nom qui lui ressemble. Il ne veut pas se faire appeler Petit Tonnerre. Alors, pourquoi pas Toucheur de nuages ou Courageux devant dix mille dents? Enfin, son p�re lui offre un nouveau nom. Un nom parfait empreint de complicit�! Le ciel en sera tout illumin� et le lecteur aussi! Les illustrations de l''artiste prim�e Yuyi Morales et le texte du c�l�bre Sherman Alexie abordent avec finesse la qu�te de l''identit�, une question qui touche tous les enfants. Les cr�ateurs font aussi un clin d''oeil � la culture autochtone. Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that''s all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn''t mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he''s done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name . . . a name that is sure to light up the sky. Original title: Thunder Boy Jr.

From New York Times bestselling author Sherman Alexie and Caldecott Honor winning Yuyi Morales comes a striking and beautifully illustrated picture book celebrating the special relationship between father and son. Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that''s all his own. Dad is known as big Thunder, but little thunder doesn''t want to share a name. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he''s done like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Little Thunder thinks all hope is lost, dad picks the best name...Lightning! Their love will be loud and bright, and together they will light up the sky.

The premier anthology of contemporary American poetry continues with an exceptional volume edited by award-winning novelist and poet Sherman Alexie, now with a new essay by Alexie on reactions to the 2015 publication. Since its debut in 1988, The Best American Poetry has become a mainstay for the direction and spirit of American poetry. Each volume in the series presents the year’s most extraordinary new poems and writers. Guest editor Sherman Alexie’s picks for The Best American Poetry 2015 highlight the depth and breadth of the American experience. Culled from electronic and print journals, the poems showcase some of our leading luminaries—Amy Gerstler, Terrance Hayes, Ron Padgett, Jane Hirshfield—and introduce a number of outstanding younger poets taking their place in the limelight. A leading figure since his breakout poetry collection The Business of Fancydancing in 1992, Sherman Alexie won the National Book Award for his novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. He describes himself as “lucky enough to be a full-time writer” and has written short stories, novels, screenplays, and essays—but he is at his core a poet. As always, series editor David Lehman’s foreword assessing the state of the art kicks off the book, followed by an introductory essay in which Alexie discusses his selections. The Best American Poetry 2015 is a guide to who’s who and what’s happening in American poetry today.

Poetry. Native American Studies. "One of the major lyric voices of our time" (NY Times Book Review), winner of the National Book Award, Alexie publishes his first new collection of poetry and short prose in six years.

"Vous savez ce qui arrive aux gogols sur la réserve ? On se fait tabasser. Au moins une fois par mois. Eh ouais, je fais partie du Club du Coquard du Mois"... Le garçon qui parle ainsi est Junior, un Indien Spokane. Né tout cassé tout tordu, il accumule les handicaps : myope, maigre et premier de la classe. En vrai, Junior est drôle et assez lucide pour savoir qu''il n''aura aucun avenir s''il reste avec les siens. Il décide alors d''aller à l''école des Blancs, voir ailleurs s''il y est. Admis au prestigieux lycée de Reardan, Junior quitte la réserve. Comme il est né. En éternel optimiste. Best-seller aux USA, ce roman "presque autobiographique" parle de mille choses sans tabou et avec un humour ravageur : l''amour, l''amitié, l''exclusion, la faim et surtout l''espoir. Romancier, nouvelliste, poète, Sherman Alexie, dont l''oeuvre est publiée chez Albin Michel, capture ce qui fait de la vie une aventure universelle.

“Stunning” short stories by the National Book Award–winning author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). In this bestselling volume of stories, National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie challenges readers to see Native American Indians as the complex, modern, real people they are. The tender and tenacious tales of The Toughest Indian in the World introduce us to the one-hundred-eighteen-year-old Etta Joseph, former co-star and lover of John Wayne, and to the unnamed narrator of the title story, a young Indian journalist searching for togetherness one hitchhiker at a time. Countless other brilliant creations leap from Alexie’s mind in these nine stories. Upwardly mobile Indians yearn for a more authentic life, married Indian couples push apart while still cleaving together, and ordinary, everyday Indians hunt for meaning in their lives. The Toughest Indian in the World combines anger, humor, and beauty into radiant fictions, fiercely imagined, from one of America’s greatest writers. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

DIVDIVWinner of the American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize, Sherman Alexie’s brilliant first novel tells a powerful tale of Indians, rock ’n’ roll, and redemption/div Coyote Springs is the only all-Indian rock band in Washington State—and the entire rest of the world. Thomas Builds-the-Fire takes vocals and bass guitar, Victor Joseph hits lead guitar, and Junior Polatkin rounds off the sound on drums. Backup vocals come from sisters Chess and Checkers Warm Water. The band sings its own brand of the blues, full of poverty, pain, and loss—but also joy and laughter.DIV It all started one day when legendary bluesman Robert Johnson showed up on the Spokane Indian Reservation with a magical guitar, leaving it on the floor of Thomas Builds-the-Fire’s van after setting off to climb Wellpinit Mountain in search of Big Mom./divDIV In Reservation Blues, National Book Award winner Alexie vaults with ease from comedy to tragedy and back in a tour-de-force outing powered by a collision of cultures: Delta blues and Indian rock. DIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author’s personal collection./div/divDIV/div/div

Sherman Alexie’s darkly humorous story collection weaves memory, fantasy, and stark reality to powerfully evoke life on the Spokane Indian Reservation. The twenty-four linked tales in Alexie’s debut collection—an instant classic—paint an unforgettable portrait of life on and around the Spokane Indian Reservation, a place where “Survival = Anger x Imagination,” where HUD houses and generations of privation intertwine with history, passion, and myth. We follow Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the longwinded storyteller no one really listens to; his half-hearted nemesis, Victor, the basketball star turned recovering alcoholic; and a wide cast of other vividly drawn characters on a haunting journey filled with humor and sorrow, resilience and resignation, dreams and reality. Alexie’s unadulterated honesty and boundless compassion come together in a poetic vision of a world in which the gaps between past and present are not really gaps after all. The basis for the acclaimed 1998 feature film Smoke Signals,the Chicago Tribune noted, “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven . . . is for the American Indian what Richard Wright’s Native Son was for the black American in 1940.” The collection received a Special Citation for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Fiction. This ebook edition features a new prologue from the author, as well as an illustrated biography and rare photos from Sherman Alexie’s personal collection.

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, this bestselling collection from master storyteller Sherman Alexie tackles love, loss, basketball--and everything in between The characters that populate the lyrical and affectionate tales in "Ten Little Indians" battle stereotypes and navigate the crossroads of culture in life off the reservation. Richard, the narrator of "Lawyer''s League," grows up in Seattle the son of "an African American giant who played defensive end for the University of Washington Huskies" and "a petite Spokane Indian ballerina." Estelle Walks Above (nEe Estelle Miller), the mother of the narrator in "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above," studies her way off the Spokane Indian Reservation and into the University of Washington, and goes on to both enjoy and resent the company of the white women of Seattle--who see her as a shamanic genius, and look to her for guidance on everything from sex and fashion to spirituality and politics. These and the other stories in "Ten Little Indians" run the gamut from earthy humor to sobering emotional truth, mapping the outer reaches of the human heart. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author''s personal collection.

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Sixteen new stories and fifteen classics by the National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling author of War Dances. Sherman Alexie’s stature as a writer of stories, poetry, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed fiction throughout the last two decades—from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner Award–winning War Dances—have established him as a star in contemporary American literature. A bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the daring, versatile, funny, and outrageous Alexie showcases his many talents in Blasphemy, where he unites fifteen beloved classics with sixteen new stories in one sweeping anthology for devoted fans and first-time readers. Included here are some of his most esteemed tales, including “What You Pawn I Will Redeem,” in which a homeless Indian man quests to win back a family heirloom; “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona,” a road-trip morality tale; “The Toughest Indian in the World,” about a night shared between a writer and a hitchhiker; and his most recent, “War Dances,” about a man grappling with sudden hearing loss in the wake of his father’s death. Alexie’s new stories are fresh and quintessential, about donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, a twenty-four-hour Asian manicure salon, good and bad marriages, and all species of warriors in America today. An indispensable Alexie collection, Blasphemy reminds us, on every thrilling page, why Alexie is one of our greatest contemporary writers and a true master of the short story. Praise for Blasphemy “Alexie once again reasserts himself as one the most compelling contemporary practitioners of the short story. In Blasphemy, the author demonstrates his talent on nearly every page. . . . [Alexie] illuminates the lives of his characters in unique, surprising, and, ultimately, hopeful ways.” —Boston Globe “Alexie writes with arresting perception in praise of marriage, in mockery of hypocrisy, and with concern for endangered truths and imperiled nature. He is mischievously and mordantly funny, scathingly forthright, deeply and universally compassionate, and wholly magnetizing. This is a must-have collection.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) “[A] sterling collection of short stories by Alexie, a master of the form. . . . The newer pieces are full of surprises. . . . These pieces show Alexie at his best: as an interpreter and observer, always funny if sometimes angry, and someone, as a cop says of one of his characters, who doesn’t “fit the profile of the neighborhood.”“—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author''s own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character''s art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.

Nos relations avec les autres ne seraient-elles en fin de compte que de petites guerres ? Pour se préserver, pour assumer ses responsabilités ou prendre des initiatives ? Avec Sherman Alexie, tout est sujet d''inspiration : être parent, le divorce, la guerre des sexes, celle des races, l''alcool et la drogue, la société de consommation, le terrorisme et bien entendu la guerre... Ses personnages sont des hommes ordinaires sur le point de connaître de grands changements, des artistes, des ouvriers, des pères, des amants, des maris ou des fils. Par leurs choix, simples et considérables à la fois, ils transforment radicalement leurs univers personnels. Un écrivain célèbre doit s''occuper de son père alcoolique et diabétique, avec qui les relations n''ont jamais été évidentes, au moment même où on vient de lui diagnostiquer une tumeur au cerveau... Un homme, dont le mariage est un naufrage, s''éprend d''une femme rencontrée dans un aéroport... Le fils d''un homme politique en vue commet un crime homophobe... Un jeune garçon découvre sa propre valeur en rédigeant des notices nécrologiques... Un père de famille tue sans le vouloir un jeune cambrioleur, et découvre qu''il est noir... Drôles, douces-amères ou émouvantes, ces nouvelles explorent la condition humaine avec davantage de force que bien des romans.

Originally published: Seattle: Sasquatch Press, A1997, titled: Home field: nine writers at bat.

Arnold "Junior" Spirit, 14 Jahre alt, intelligent, witzig und selbsternannter "retard" will etwas aus seinem Leben machen. Als Bewohner eines Indianerreservats wäre es allerdings sehr, sehr ungewöhnlich, wenn es ihm gelingen würde. Er entscheidet sich also, sein Leben zu ändern, indem er die Schule wechselt. Seine neue Schule ist voller erfolgreicher weisser Kids, dessen Jungs ihn erst mal alle zusammenschlagen wollen. Aber Arnold wehrt sich, und ausserdem entdeckt er ein Talent für Basketball... und für Mädchen... (Quelle: Homepage des Verlags).