War dances
By: by Sherman Alexie
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780802119193; 9780802144898
Subjects: Indians of North America; Spokane Indians; American Short stories; Fathers and sons; Coeur d'Alene Indians; Terminally ill; Authors; Fiction; Short stories
Description: A collection of short stories includes the title story, in which a famous writer, who just learned he may have a brain tumor, must decide how to care for his distant, American Indian father who is slowly dying.
Notes: PEN/Faulkner award, 2010.
Table of contents: title: "The Limited"; title: Breaking and entering; title: "Go, Ghost, Go"; title: Bird-watching at night; title: "After building the Lego 'Star Wars' Ultimate Death Star"; title: War dances; title: "The theology of reptiles"; title: Catechism; title: "Ode to small-town sweethearts"; title: The senator's son; title: "Another proclamation"; title: Invisible dog on a leash; title: "Home of the braves"; title: The ballad of Paul Nonetheless; title: "On airplanes"; title: Big bang theory; title: "Ode for pay phones"; title: Fearful symmetry; title: "Ode to mix tapes"; title: Roman Catholic haiku; title: "Looking glass"; title: Salt; title: "Food chain."