num_pages: 209
description: In his first new fiction since winning the National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian best-selling author Sherman Alexie delivers a virtuoso collection of tender witty and soulful stories that expertly capture modern relationships from the most diverse angles. War Dances brims with Alexies poetic and revolutionary prose and reminds us once again why he ranks as one of our countrys finest writers.With bright insight into the minds of artists entrepreneurs fathers husbands and sons Alexie populates his stories with average men on the brink of exceptional change: In the title story a son recalls his fathers natural Indian death from alcohol and diabetes just as he learns that he himself may have a brain tumor; The Ballad of Paul Nonetheless dissects a vintage clothing store owners failing marriage and courtship of a Puma-clad stranger in airports across the country; and Breaking and Entering recounts a film editors fateful confrontation with an thieving adolescent.Brazen and wise War Dances takes us to the heart of what it means to be human. The new beginnings successes mistakes and regrets that make up our daily lives are laid bare in this wide-ranging new work that is quintessential.
language: English
title: War Dances
publisher: Grove Press