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Reservation Blues by: Sherman Alexie List Price: $13.00 Childrens Bookshop Price: $10.40 You Save: $2.60 (20%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780802141903 ISBN: 0802141900 Label: Grove Press Manufacturer: Grove Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: February 07, 2005 Publisher: Grove Press Studio: Grove Press Sales Rank: 36752 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Winner of the American Book Award and a critically acclaimed national best seller, Reservation Blues continues to find new and adoring readers in academic and popular circles alike. In 1931, Robert Johnson allegedly sold his soul to the devil, receiving legendary blues skills in return. He went on to record only twenty-nine songs before being murdered on August 16, 1938. In 1992, however, Johnson suddenly reappears on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, the misfit storyteller of the Spokane Tribe. When Johnson passes his enchanted instrument to Thomas—lead singer of the rock-and-roll band Coyote Springs—a magical odyssey begins that will take the band from reservation bars to small-town taverns, from the cement trails of Seattle to the concrete canyons of Manhattan. Sherman Alexie imaginatively mixes narrative, newspaper excerpts, songs, journal entries, visions, radio interviews, and dreams to explore the effects of Christianity on Native Americans in the late twentieth century. In addition, he examines the impact of cultural assimilation on the relationships between Indian women and Indian men. Reservation Blues is a painful, humorous, and ultimately redemptive symphony about God and indifference, faith and alcoholism, family and hunger, sex and death. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - a fine fable of redemptionWritten by Sherman Alexie, this fable about the hometown challenges of his own home town, makes a fine, sensitive novel. This is the struggle of an Indian band - and it's this double entendre that is at the heart of his tale. Three Spokane Indians and two Flathead sisters form a musical group, which, in its character and pathologies, are a metaphor for Indians everywhere. The band comprises two sisters, two lifelong friends, and a misfit. The sisters, Checkers and Chess ... Read More: Rating: - Music and SalvationThe use of music as a means to institute change in a lost society is a thematic element central to both plot and character development in Sherman Alexie's novel, Reservation Blues. The characters face a variety of complex decisions while at a crossroad in their lives. Discerning the often-blurry line between need and greed is vital for the young men and women to achieve personal success. As Native Americans, they must reject the skewed value system that prevents their brothers from rising out of a ... Read More: Rating: - Interesting, yes. Outstanding, no.I read this book because my friend was reading it and what she reads, I normally like very much. I did like the valuable insight into the firsthand racism that the characters experience, the distressing conditions on the reservations and the true to life characters. I did not enjoy the elusive, spiritual Robt. Johnson character nor "Big Mom". For some reason, reading about those two made me uncomfortable and wanting to simply move forward. Also, the story unwinding into the band Coyote ... Read More: Rating:  - Confronting RacismAlexie at his best. With humor, irony, and compassion, this novel mirrors the hopelessness of being born, raised and a resident of the reservation. Rating: - a song of power, remembrance, loss, vitality, and love!Every page of Alexie's Reservation Blues reads with the kind of portent and quake found in Alexie's great poems of love, fire, and loss. Humor and wisdom are interwoven to create a braiding effect as sharp with irony as it is quiet and confident with revelation. Alexie has expressed the anger and desire of an entire generation, unequivocally spat in the face of the elitist regime, and blessed society with a sacred sense of laughter, wholeness, and delight. Winner of the PEN/Hemingway award for The Lone ... Read More: |
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